Art Happens

World premiere
06 – 08 July 2023
Festival de Marseille

The dance group’s work confronts collective settings: religions, rituals and festivities. How much does a group encourage or suppress one’s capacity of being free? What events or circumstances can change a trajectory? A meeting, a book, love, religion, the government, an opportunity?
Cia Suave creates a space to pursue freedom, both for performers and the public, and the title refers to the free incorporation of elements from different dances and music, characteristic of artistic movements born after the internet.
As in their previous shows, Suave and Cria, their work connects urban and popular dances in Brazil with contemporary performance and staging.
Besides the dance style passinho, this work presents elements of contact dance, theatre, vocal research, African dances, Afro-house, sabala, TikTok, and dances from the north and north-east of Brazil, such as pisadinha and brega funk.