RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Garrincha is a five-act play with a prologue and an epilogue, created by Robert Wilson based on the history of this Brazilian soccer idol. From the football fields to the bohemian carioca life, the player enshrined in Botafogo and in the Brazilian national team is the character of a work in which Robert Wilson draws, in rhythm, set and light, scenes that present the hero's exterior and interior. Music and dance in Garrincha bring us a mood and are fundamental elements in the dramatic arrangement, with the colors and textures of Brazil in which Wilson puts this football legend. A mark of his work, Robert Wilson's rare control over stage art, the orchestration of the relationships between music and speech, movement, body, costumes and light, light and space, symbol and meaning, seeks to explore and enrich narrative possibilities of a biography made myth. Wilson continues to seek inspiration for his pieces in cultural traditions around the globe, whether from Brecht or from football. For this universal theater, Robert Wilson developed a very personal language. It is a theater in which intelligence is at the service of the heart. When creating the vocabulary of his theater, Wilson adapts techniques to answer the formal problems that the stage presents. Design and structure come first, reflecting his training as an architect and his temperament as a painter.

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ROBERT WILSON

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Born in Waco, Texas, Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. After being educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Wilson founded the New York-based performance collective “The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds” in the mid-1960s, and developed his first signature works, including Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975). With Philip Glass he wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). Wilson’s artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Jessye Norman and Anna Calvi. He has also left his imprint on masterworks such as Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera, Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande, Goethe’s Faust, Homer’s Odyssey, Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s La Traviata and Sophocles’ Oedipus. Wilson's drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented around the world in hundreds of solo and group showings, and his works are held in private collections and museums throughout the world. Wilson has been honored with numerous awards for excellence, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Premio Ubu awards, the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, and an Olivier Award. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the German Academy of the Arts, and holds 8 Honorary Doctorate degrees. France pronounced him Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2003) and Officer of the Legion of Honor (2014); Germany awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2014). Wilson is the founder and Artistic Director of The Watermill Center, a laboratory for the Arts in Water Mill, New York.

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GARRINCHA - A STREET OPERA

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direction, set and light concept: Robert Wilson | idealization: Danilo Santos de Miranda | text and dramaturgy: Darryl Pinckney | musical direction: Hal Willner | co-direction: Charles Chemin | costumes: Carlos Soto | associate set designer: Annick Lavallée-Benny | light design: John Torres | visagism: Manuela Halligan | light supervision: Marcello Lumaca | light design consultancy: AJ Weissbard | consultant: Carlos Augusto Calil | with: Carol Bezerra, Claudia Noemi, Claudinei Brandão, Cleber D'Nuncio, Dandara Mariana, Daniel Infantini, Fernanda Faran, Jhe Oliveira, Lucas Wickhaus, Naruna Costa, Nathália Mancinelli, Roberta Estrela D'Alva, Robson Catalunia | guest cast: Bete Coelho, Lígia Cortez, Luiz Damasceno | musicians: Alexandre Ribeiro, Fabricio Rosil, João Poleto, Roberta Valente, Samba Sam,

Zé Barber | direction assistance: André Guerreiro Lopes

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international production and project: Change Performing Arts, Milan, Italy | director: Franco Laera | production coordinator: Simona Fremder | public relations and text translation: Maristela Gaudio

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production in Brazil: prod.art.br | production direction: Ricardo Muniz Fernandes and Ricardo Frayha | administration: Matthias Pees | technical direction: Júlio Cesarini

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Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Teatro Paulo Autran - Sesc Pinheiros

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

23/04 to 27/05/2016