RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Memory, records and marks on the body. A drift by trinkets, memories of things recorded in space and bodies. The weaving of time in gestures, looks, hardness, speech and ears, the softness coming to the fore, and spreading on stage, contaminates a small and intimate audience. These few dozen people, dancing together with the beauty of the lived and its inside out: that still to be lived, the white hair as a counterpoint to the dark, curly, vigorous and young hair, the difficulty against the liveliness of other bodies in full operation. Wabi Sabi is about discovering beauty in imperfection and about accepting the cycle of life and death. It's a haiku launched into space by Dorothy Lenner, Beatriz Sano and Júlia Rocha. All dancing what exists, the moment, what persists, what appears, what repeats, someone who arrives, someone who goes and what it all means. Wabi Sabi is made of glimpses of their history and also of each of the few spectators, who enter as partners in these pas-des-deux and dismantles, in these images and pieces of the incessant movement of life. In a space idealized by Hideki Matsuka and Ricardo Muniz Fernandes, memories and facts, in a first room, compose a relic and affective space, in full contrast to the placidity and oriental minimalism of the second room. Parallel paths that interpenetrate and tell of this intersection that crossed Dorothy Lenner's path. A place to be visited and explored, both by Sesc visitors and by the performances of Dorothy Lenner, Beatriz Sano and Júlia Rocha.

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DOROTHY LENNER

 

Actress, dancer, teacher and researcher

born in Bucharest, Romania, and naturalized Brazilian. Formed by the School of Dramatic Art of the University of São Paulo (EAD) in 1958, Dorothy was responsible for the discipline of “Actor's techniques” in that same institution between 1966-1972. She was a fellow of the British Council, representing Brazil in the Stage Craft and Acting course in the British Drama League, having studied Period Movement (old European dances) with Belinda Query (1967) in London, England. Dorothy gave several workshops, from “Maskworks” to Jungian psychotherapy with Sula Guerschan. She worked in cinema, TV and theatre, with directors such as Alfredo Mesquita, Alberto D'Aversa, Antunes Filho, Clifford Williams, Eugênio Kusnet and, from 1977 to 2001, was part of the dance-theatre company Cia. Tamanduá, under the direction of Takao Kusuno.

 

 

WABI SABI

 

Conception: Dorothy Lenner, Hideki Matsuka and Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Creative interpreter: Dorothy Lenner | Special participation: Beatriz Sano, Júlia Rocha | Scenic orientation: Key Sawao | Music: Murillo Ramiro

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Production: prod.art.br | Production direction: Ricardo Muniz Fernandes and Ricardo Frayha | Executive production: Lara Bordin | Spatial architecture and lighting: Hideki Matsuka | Architecture assistants: Vinicius Cardoso and Vitor Yoshio | Light: Igor Sane | Technical direction: Júlio Cesarini | Technicians: Wanderley Wagner da Silva, Rafael Alcântara, Fernando Zimolo and Enrique Casas | Sound and video: Rodrigo Gava | Costume/Dorothy: Doris Teixeira | Kimono: Simone Mina | Graphic design: Érico Peretta 

Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Sesc Ipiranga

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

12/11 to 11/12/2016