RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

From 2011 to 2016, Ricardo Frayha was the responsible for the management and tour production for the Berlin based dance-theatre company Constanza Macras | DorkyPark. In this period was responsible for fourteen productions of the company’s repertoire, counting over sixty tours in almost thirty different countries: besides all over Europe, produced tours in South Korea, China, India, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Mozambique, South Africa, Argentina, between other countries, frequently collaborating with the Goethe Institut and with the main German theatres and festivals such as HAU (Hebbel-am-Ufer), Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Maxim Gorki Theater, Thalia Theater, Kampnagel, Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Theatre Freiburg, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Tanz im August, Tanzplattform Deutschland, between others and international ones such as the Seoul Arts Perfoming Festival, Guangdong Dance Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Zürcher Theatre Spektakel, Théâtre Forum Meyrin, LAC - Lugano Arte e Cultura, Romaeuropa Festival, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Dansens Hus Oslo, BIPOD (Beirut International Platform of Dance), Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, Attakkalari India Dance Biennial, Dance Umbrella Johannesburg, MAC Créteil, Le Quartz, La Filature, Serbian National Theater, Trafó Budapest, Nová scéna Praha, Théâtre de Liège, Tramway Glasgow, FIBA (Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires), to name a few.

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CONSTANZA MACRAS

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was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied dance and fashion design, at the Buenos Aires University (UBA). She continued her dance studies in Amsterdam and New York (Merce Cunningham Studios). In 1995, Macras moved to Berlin and danced for various companies. In 1997, she founded her own first company TAMAGOTCHI Y2K. Between 1998 and 2000, TAMAGOTCHI Y2K presented four pieces: Wild Switzerland (1998), Face One (1999), In Between (2000) and Dolce Vita (2000), a site-specific live music performance that combined artists from various disciplines. It was created as a one-time event for each specific location. From 2001 to 2002, Macras developed and presented the trilogy MIR: A Love Story. In 2002, she also curated the project ‘PORNOsotros’, where she performed together with Lisi Estaras (Ballets C. de la B.) under the direction of different directors four short pieces dealing with the subject of pornography at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. She taught workshops and master classes in Japan, the United States (Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, ‘On the Boards’ in Seattle, India Atakalari Dance Center), France, Italy (Rome University for Performing Arts), Belgium (Antwerp University), the Netherlands (Henny Jurriens Foundation), Switzerland and Germany (Hochschule fuer Schauspielkunst ‘Ernst Busch’ and at the University of Arts UdK, both in Berlin. In 2008 Constanza Macras received the Goethe-Institut Award for her piece Hell on Earth. In 2010 she was awarded with the Arts at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) William L. Abramowitz Residency. Since 1961, the series has brought renowned performing artists and writers to MIT to perform, present public lectures, and collaborate with students in free programs. In the same year Constanza Macras was awarded the national German theater-prize DER FAUST for best choreography for the piece Megalopolis. Next to her productions with her company, Constanza Macras has also created Bosque de Espejos  (2016) for Teatro Colón’s Permanent Ballet Company in Buenos Aires; Soft Cell  (2015) commissioned by and for the Göteborg Opera Dance Company; Paraíso sem Consolação  (2008) a commission work of the Goethe Institut São Paulo with dancers from the company and a Brazilian cast. Premiered in São Paulo; Ein Sommernachtsraum (2006) together with Thomas Ostermeier, the Schaubühne ensemble and dancers from DorkyPark, Premiered at the Hellenic Festival; Pegarle la Bolsa (2004) a commission from the Goethe-Institut Cordoba (Argentina) and Happiness (2003) for the Saarländisches Staatstheater Ballet.

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I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE (2006) consists of two parts shown on two different evenings, each part with a different cast. Both may be viewed on their own.What drives one to leave one’s homeland, and what is a homeland? Is it one’s family? Animals? Is it the smell, the food, the air? Is it the exhaust?

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Mercat de les Flors

Barcelona, Spain

06 and 07/10/2012

BIPOD - Beirut International Platform of Dance
Beirut, Lebanon
20/04/2013

Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival
Ramallah, Palestine
22/04/2013

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HELL ON EARTH (2008) Berlin’s district of Neukölln houses more migrants than natives. How do adolescent teenagers with an immigrant background cope with the multilayered feeling of foreignness?  In Hell of Earth Neukölln teenagers talk about their hopes, troubles, discrimination and their wish to adapt.

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HAU - Hebbel-am-Ufer 
Berlin, Germany
11 to 14/01/2012

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OEDIPUS REX (2009) Constanza Macras’ first opera project based on Igor Stravinsky’s 1927 opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (with libretto by Jean. Cocteau). A collaboration with Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota who designed the stage set.

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Théatre de la Place
Liège, Belgium
01 to 03/02/2012

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MEGALOPOLIS (2009) is a promise and a curse. A beaming city and an uncontrollable construct, constantly in motion. The scene is the city under the impact of globalism. A city characterized by the illegibility of today’s megacities, born into chaos. A city as collage which consists of countless biographical scraps. Megacities as a paradigm for spaces in which people live without knowing each other. Will the urban development follow principles unknown to us?

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Seoul Arts Performing Festival
Seoul, South Korea
28 and 29/09/2011

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
20 to 22/06/2014

Bolzano Danza
Bolzano, Italy
23/07/2014

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
24/09/2014

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BERLIN ELSEWHERE (2011) in Berlin Elsewhere, strangers meet at a place of mental captivity. They’re suffering from common social maladies, neurosis, bipolarity, fetishism, and fetishism of commodities. A place that is somewhere between exclusion, madness, and struggle.  What kind of madness does our society permit before someone is confined? What is confinement in the era of medication?

Tanzhaus nrw
Düsseldorf, Germany
09 and 10/09/2011

 
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
20 a 22/09/2011

CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia
Udine, Italy
29/10/11

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
04 to 06/11/2011

MAC - Maison des Arts de Créteil
Paris, France
24 to 26/11/2011

Thalia Theater
Hamburg, Germany
24 and 25/01/2012

 
Tanzplattform 2012
Dresden, Germany
23 and 24/02/2012

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz 
Berlin, Germany
27 to 29/09/2014

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HERE/AFTER (2011) explores the concept of Agoraphobia. Does everyday life in a metropolis pose a threat to the people? The piece deals with the anonymity and growing isolation of the individual in urban life. Never before has it been so easy to be “by oneself” in a society which makes a confrontation with the “outside” avoidable through internet, chatrooms and delivery services. In fact, what is out there that one absolutely has to experience live?

HAU - Hebbel-am-Ufer

Berlin, Germany
03, 05 to 09/12/2011

 

Spring Festival
Cairo, Egypt
21 and 22/04/2012

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Romaeuropa Festival
Rome, Italy
05 to 07/10/2012

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OPEN FOR EVERYTHING (2012) is a travel through the stagnation of Roma communities in Europe to whom chances to work like any other citizen are rather low, where itinerant traditions have been replaced by sedentary life beside the uprootedness of the group of dancers that move around the world following working opportunities. Who is making use of whose prejudices? And just who are the true nomads of the 21st century?

Wiener Festwochen
Vienna, Austria
10, 12 to 14/05/2012

 
HAU - Hebbel-am-Ufer
Berlin, Germany
18 to 20, 22 e 23/05/2012

 
Kampnagel
Hamburg, Germany
31/05; 01 and 02/06/ 2012

 
Nova Scena
Prague, Czech Republic
05 and 06/06/2012

 
Trafó
Budapest, Hungary
08 and 09/06/2012

 
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
10 to 13/08/2012

 
Zürcher Theatre Spektakel
Zurich, Switzerland
16 to 19/08/2012​

Dansen Hus Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
07 and 08/09/2012

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
14, 16 and 17/09/2012

 
Festival Divadelná Nitra
Nitra, Slovakia
21/09/2012

Košice Interface European Capital of Culture
Košice, Slovakia
23/09/2012

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
13 and 14/10/2012

 
Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste
Dresden, Germany
19 and 20/10/2012

 
Centrum Kultury Zamek
Poznań, Poland  
01/02/2013

Dansens Hus - Nasjonal Scene for Dans
Oslo, Norway
01 to 03/03/2013

MAC - Maison des Arts de Créteil
Paris, France
12 and 13/04/2013

Tramway Arts Center
Glasgow, Scotland
26 and 27/04/2013

 
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele
Ludwigsburg, Germany
20 and 21/06/2013

 
Sommerblut - Festival der Multipolarkultur
Cologne, Germany
06/07/2013

Théâtre Forum Meyrin
Geneve, Switzerland
14 to 16/11/2013

 
Theatre Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
30/11/2013

CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia
Udine, Italy
18/04/2015

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DISTORTION (2013) a piece dealing with hip-hop sub-culture moves and questioning the concept of what its means “being German” today.  Created with  eight young dancers from the Hip Hop Academy Hamburg in Distortion the performers tell us about their  lives and their immigrant birth and living backgrounds in a dance-theater piece in which breakdance and hip-hop moves are diffracted with keywords from political and media discourses.

Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste
Dresden, Germany
28 and 29/06/2013

 
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
07 to 09/10/2013

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Julidans
Amsterdam, the Netherland
12/07/2014

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THE PAST (2014) is created with the collaboration of Swiss-Italian music composer Oscar Bianchi, who composed the music, the starting point for this piece was the city as a concrete geographical location, as an anchor for memory, a mental picture and a cast of mind. The Past explores the links between memory and place. What happens with our memories, what happens to those who are remembering when these physical places are destroyed?

Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste
Dresden, Germany
07 and 08/11/2014

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
27, 29 and 30/11; 01/12/2014

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
29 and 30/01; 03/02/2015

Attakkalari India Dance Biennial
Bangalore, India
09/02/2015

Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall
Chennai, India
12/02/2015

Musaeus College Auditorium
Colombo, Sri Lanka
15/02/2015

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
20 e 21/05/2015

 
Infant Festival, Serbian National Theatre
Novi Sad, Serbia
25/06/2015

FIBA - Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
18 e 19/02/2015

LAC - Lugano Arte e Cultura
Lugano, Switzerland
29/01/2016

 

Théâtre de Liège
Liège, Belgium
03/02/2016

Le Quartz - scène nationale de Brest
Brest, France
04 e 05/03/2016

 
La Filature - scène nationale de Mulhouse
Mulhouse, France
10/03/2016

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ON FIRE – THE INVENTION OF TRADITION (2015) is a piece with a mixed cast of South African and Berlin-based performers that was created with the collaboration of the Johannesburg-based visual artist Ayana V.Jackson. The piece deals with the re-evaluation of heritage and tradition in relation to segregated cultural groups, which are being articulated in new ways in urban life – and with self-defined contemporary practices and rituals.

Dance Umbrella South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
26 and 27/02/2015

 
Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano
Maputo, Mozambique
03/03/2015

Maxim Gorki Theater
Berlin, Germany
29 and 30/09/2015

Maxim Gorki Theater
Berlin, Germany
22 and 23/01/2016

Thalia Theater
Hamburg, Germany
26/01/2016

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THE GHOSTS (2015) is a piece in which Constanza Macras has worked with Chinese acrobats and circus performers. It looks like these artists, who once won fame and fortune for their country with their bodily discipline, have been forgotten and “decommissioned” by Chinese society.  The Ghosts, like the Chinese Ghost Festival in July, allows them a temporary return to the land of living, making their art and their stories visible once again.

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Tanz im August, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Berlin, Germany
03 to 05/09/2015

Guangdong Dance Festival
Guangzhou, China
11/11/2015