RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Theatre | CREATION | 2009

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MATTHIAS LILIENTHAL
VARIOUS

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X Apartments

Fiction and reality, theater and daily life are mixed in a mission to discover other angles of the city, its daily routine and its details. The artistic project X Apartments allows biographies and residences of ordinary people to mix with dance presentations, exhibitions, philosophy, history and theatrical performances, integrated in the daily life of the São Paulo citizen, inhabitant of the city center and its surroundings. During four days, 22 houses and apartments located in the neighborhoods of Bela Vista, Consolação, Higienópolis, República, Santa Cecília and Vila Buarque opened their doors and exhibited, in 3 routes, 22 artistic actions created by national and international artists and non-artists, being them residents of the place or not, headed by names like Rodrigo García, Richard Maxwell (New York City Players), Simon Will (Gob Squad), Enrique Diaz, Daniela Thomas, to name a few. The X Apartments project is an original idea by Matthias Lilienthal, and in partnership with the HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, it has already been carried out in the cities of Duisburg, Berlin, Istanbul, Caracas, Beirut, Athens, Johannesburg, among others.

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MATTHIAS LILIENTHAL

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Matthias Lilienthal was head dramaturg at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz under Frank Castorf from 1992 to 1999, where he initiated, among other things, the engagements of Christoph Marthaler and Christoph Schlingensief. He was program director for Theater der Welt 2002 in Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Duisburg. For the first time he developed X Apartments for this festival, a format which by now has been utilized three times in different districts of Berlin, and has been adapted for Caracas, Istanbul, São Paulo, Warsaw, Johannesburg and many more. From 2003 to 2012 he was artistic director and manager of the HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) in Berlin.  He was program director of Theater der Welt 2014 in Mannheim. Started at the 2015/2016 season as artistic director at Münchner Kammerspiele in Munich. 

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X APARTMENTS SÃO PAULO

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Idealisation: Matthias Lilienthal | Curatorship and production direction: Anne Schulz, Matthias Pees, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Consulting: Rodolfo Vazquez, Kirsten Hehmeyer | Participation in project preparation: Sven Heier and Patrick Wymann

Invited artists: Alvise Camozzi and Rachel Brumana, Beto Guilger, BiNeural MonoKultur / Ariel Dávila, Cássio Santiago and Elisa Band, CPT Sesc SP / Antunes Filho, Daniela Thomas, Dellbrügge & de Moll, Elisa Ohtake, Enrique Diaz, Estela Lapponi, Gesine Danckwart , Giselle Beiguelman and Roberta Dab Dab, Ieltxu Martinez Ortueta, Lenise Pinheiro, Lucas Bambozzi, Letícia Sekito, Nurkan Erpulat, Richard Maxwell, Rodrigo García, Simon Will, Simone Mina and Torsten Michaelsen

Participation and collaboration: Aguinaldo de Souza Rocha, Ana Goldenstein, Angélica Maria Di Paula Souza, Carmen Ferreira Silva, Carolina Bertier, Christina Ruf, Cledson Alcides da Silva, Cristina Maluli Moreira, Diogo Moura, Dulcilene Maria de Sousa, Elisete Jeremias, Emerson Danesi , Flávia Thais Strongolli, Isabel Teixeira, Ivanete de Araújo, Jomarina Abreu Pires da Fonseca, Juliane Elting, Lineu Palaia, Marco Antonio Bilgia Jr, Marcio, Maria da Conceição Carvalho, Matunaga, Phedra de Córdoba, Priscilla Camillo Soares with Matheus, Juliana and Jamaica, Raul Carmilo Granado, Reinaldo Rodrigues and Thiago Ledier.

Research Apartments and production assistant: Ben Neumann | Reception of international guests: Tim Becker | Technical coordination: Evandro Almeida Filho, Julio Cesarini | Technicians: Wanderley Wagner da Silva, Roberto Rodrigues da Silva | Text translations: Christine Röhrig, Bartira Galati | Graphic design: Érico Peretta | Web design: Julio Pessoa | Production assistants: André Gomes Fernandes, Bruno Gobbo, Catherine Lima, Clarissa Mastro, Ciru Lubliner, Cynthia Domenico, Eduardo Salvino, Ivan Andrade, Leandro Rissi, Lygia Oliveira, Nara Chaib Mendes, Olívia Barcelos, Paloma Oliveira, Paula Zwicker, Priscila Frossard, Rick Levy, Tatjana Glaser, Thais Almeida Prado, Tieza Tissi, Tim Becker and Viviane Dias Kiritani | Photos of the houses: Anne Schulz

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Production: prod.art.br | Production directors: Matthias Pees, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Coordination and executive producers: Jussara Rahal, Ricardo Frayha

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Realisation: Sesc São Paulo, Goethe-Institut 

Support: HAU - Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin and Cultural Center of Spain-SP

Sesc Consolação

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

24 to 27/06/2009

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