Réquiem SP

A kinetic ritual about death and the irreversibility of life in bodies and things.
Tracing a dramatic trajectory from mourning to anger, transforming destruction into regeneration, Réquiem SP evokes the city of São Paulo with its interdependent differences in the body.
The piece combines ballet, samba, jumpstyle, house, krump, and animation, which come together to create a choreographic sculpture shaped by 18 dancers.
Cameras and video extensions materialize the soundtrack and expand the body of the city and the stage, creating an ecosystem between movement, sound, light, and image.
Yan Boechat*, journalist, photographer, and reporter-writer, was invited to contribute to this ecosystem.
Réquiem SP offers, in the current trajectory of the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, the materialization of a technical and artistic sharing between a municipal public company and the independent dance scene in Brazil. This action establishes encounters that bring the company’s dance into perspectives and cultures of techno-diversity.

Source: Maison de la danse program