Lia RodriguesBR
Borda
Dance
In 2022, Encantado lit up La Bâtie with its otherworldly magic. Lia Rodrigues’ dancers turned rags and scraps into a lush, heavenly garden of resistance and reconciliation. Driven by a desire for unity, the Brazilian choreographer founded both a dance school and an arts centre more than twenty years ago in the Maré favela – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest and most challenged neighbourhoods – carving out a space for freedom amid the social violence and stark inequality. Her shows, performed by her students and collaborators, are imbued with this deep commitment, this vision of art as an act of resistance, as evidenced once again by Borda. Often heard as “border” – a dividing line – “Borda” also means embroider, decorate, illuminate, as Rodrigues reminds us. In this piece, ten performers from her school in Maré weave a living tapestry where edges shift, float and dance, creating a porous space of fluid otherness, stitched with dreams. Because Borda is also about imagination and dreamworlds.
A discussion will be held after the show on Tuesday 2nd of September.
Comédie de Genève
Tickets
Full price : CHF 40.- / AVS, AI, UNEMPLOYEMENT : CHF 25.- / student, under 26 year : CHF 12.- / 20ans20francs : CHF 10.- / Festival-goer rate : CHF 8.-
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A 2025 creation, co-produced by La Bâtie-Festival de Genève and the Comédie de Genève with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Length 60'
+14 years old
Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças
Created by
Lia Rodrigues
Danced and created in collaboration with
Leonardo Nunes, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey da Silva, David Abreu, Raquel Alexandre, Daline Ribeiro, João Alves, Cayo Almeida, Vitor de Abreu
Creative assistant
Amalia Lima
Dramaturgy
Silvia Soter
Artistic collaboration and images
Sammi Landweer
Lighting design
Nicolas Boudier
Stage management and lighting
Magali Foubert and Baptistine Méral
Soundtrack
Miguel Bevilacqua (based on extracts from a recording made in 1938 in the north of Brazil by the Mission de Recherche Folklorique conceived by the writer and intellectual Mario de Andrade / Extract from the public domain music “Amor Amor Amor”, which forms part of the repertoire of the “Cavalo Marinho”, a Brazilian dramatic dance performed by Luiz Paixão.)
Mixing and mastering
Ronaldo Gonçalves
Production, distribution manager
Colette de Turville
Production manager
Astrid Toledo
Production and distribution Brazil
Gabi Gonçalves / Corpo Rastreado
Secretary, administration
Gloria Laureano
Logistical support Centre des Arts Maré
Sendy Silva
Teachers
Amalia Lima, Leonardo Nunes, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey Silva
Costumes
Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças
Seamstress
Antonia Jardilino de Paiva
Production
Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças
Co-production
Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Maison de la danse, Lyon/Pôle européen de création, in support of the Biennale de la danse 2025 - Chaillot, Théâtre National de la Danse (Paris), Le CENTQUATRE (Paris), Festival d'Automne à Paris, Wiener Festwochen (Wien), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève - Comédie de Genève, Romaeuropa (Rome), Pact Zollverein (Essen), One Dance Festival (Plovdiv), Theater Freiburg, Muffatwerk (Münich), Passages Transfestival (Metz), Festival Perspectives (Saarbrücken), Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, Tanz im August - HAUHebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Théâtre Garonne, scène européenne (Toulouse), Le Lieu Unique, Scène nationale de Nantes (in residency at La Libre Usine)
Lia Rodrigues is an International Artist associated with the CENTQUATRE-PARIS and the Maison de la danse/Pôle européen de création, in support of the Lyon Biennial.
With support by
Fondation Ammodo, Redes da Maré and Centro de Artes da Maré
Thanks
Thérèse Barbanel, Corpo Rastreado, Inês Assumpção, Luiz Assumpção, Diana Nassif, Centro de Artes da Maré team, Jacques Segueilla
Dedicated to Max Nassif Earp
Comédie de Genève
Tickets
Full price : CHF 40.- / AVS, AI, UNEMPLOYEMENT : CHF 25.- / student, under 26 year : CHF 12.- / 20ans20francs : CHF 10.- / Festival-goer rate : CHF 8.- / See rates details
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© Sammi Landweer
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