This table is a celebrate-in-action of the work and life of Ismael Ivo, one of the great dance Brazilians on the planet, who left us in 2021. A celebration that takes place from the testimonies of some people who have shared his art, built over multiple actions pointing to the future of dance. His legacy is also reincarnated in these professionals like dance incarnates in the bodies of those who have it as a profession and the audiences experiencing each act.

Talking about Ismael Ivo is to talk about his works and the artistic, formative, technical, and aesthetic processes that pour into each of them. It is to talk about the front and back: the daily making in dance.

Talking about Ivo is to talk about the memory and future of a work that is alive, in each one that has been touched by his energy, strength, creativity, and smile.

His trajectories have extended over so many women and men like a black eagle of huge wings-arms. In this reunion, part of this memory, like an “identity in action,” is called upon, reconstituting itself to beyond the fixity and immutability. 

Minibios:

MINI BIOS

Cláudia Nwabasili e Roges Doglas
Cláudia Nwabasili (São Paulo) and Roges Doglas (Camaçari-BA) are founders, choreographers, and interpreters of Cia Pé no Mundo (SP), whose proposal is the art research guided by the dialog between African-Brazilian manifestations and contemporary dance. They participated in the edition of the program “Biblioteca do Corpo” [Body Library ] (Sesc São Paulo, ImPulsTanz/Viena, State Culture Department/SP/Edition 2013), with the performance No Sacre [In the Sacre] (Vienna and São Paulo, 2013), under Ismael Ivo’s direction/choreography.

Cleide Queiroz
Acting in the Brazilian scene for more than five decades, Cleide Queiroz, born in Santos (SP), is an actress and teacher of vocal expression, with a historical actuation in cinema, television, and theater. She acted in the movies Pixote (1980/Hector Babenco) and A Hora da Estrela [The Hour of the Star] (1985/Suzana Amaral); the television show Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum [Rá-Tim-Bum Castle] (1990-1994, TV Cultura) and theater performances Gota d´Água [Drop of Water] (2001/Gabriel Vilella), for which she was nominated to the Shell Award, and Palavra de Stela [Word of Stela] (2017/Elias Andreato), a monologue for which she was nominated to the APCA Award for best actress. She was the protagonist of Erêndira, (Vienna and São Paulo/2014), by Ismael Ivo, within the program Biblioteca do Corpo [Body Library] (SESC São Paulo, ImPulsTanz/Viena), Culture State Department/SP/2014 Edition).

Fábio Mazzoni
Dance-theater director, lighting technician, and cultural manager, he was the direction assistant for the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo during Ismael Ivo’s management. He currently chairs the Ismael Ivo Institute.

Fernanda Bueno
Dancer, interpreter, choreographer, teacher, and currently a journalism student. She studied at Escola Municipal de Bailados, current Escola de Dança (Fundação Theatro Municipal de São Paulo), acting in the Corpo de Dança do Amazonas, Cia. de Danças de Diadema Núcleo Omstrab, Projeto Mov’iola and, since 2008, in the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo. Since 2018, in collaboration with her partner Kleber Pagú, an activist for the arts, curator, and urban planner, she idealizes and produces projects in the public art field. Co-founder of Nós Artivistas, a civil, transient, and sporadic movement responsible for artistic manifestations in the city, like the writing in Avenida Paulista’s asphalt “BLACKLIVESMATTER, and the idealization and production of the intervention #EVERYONEFORVACCINES, in the asphalt of São Paulo’s Sambodrome, within Covid-19 context. 

Marcio Aurelio
Set designer, costume designer, and director of reference works in theater and dance-theater, he developed innovative experiences, imprinting a delicate and thorough finishing to the scene. Teacher at ECA-USP and tenured professor at Unicamp’s Arts Institute, with the research “LAZZO – ACTIO: Nelson Rodrigues and Goethe in Weimar, a poetic action/2002,”. He organized shows in Brazil and abroad based on texts from Sophocles, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Nelson Rodrigues, and Alcides Nogueira, among others. In 1990, he created the Companhia Razões Inversas with graduate students from Unicamp’s first performing arts course class, directing awarded performances like The Broken Jug by Kleist, and Agreste, by Newton Moreno. In 2009, he directed Ballo for São Paulo Companhia de Dança. His first dance collaboration was with Marilena Ansaldi in Hamletmachine (1987). Awarded for many of his works, from 1997 to 2000, he directed, along with dancer and choreographer Ismael Ivo, at Deutsches National Theater/Weimar/Germany, the works The Asphalt Kiss (1998), Aura (2000), Tristan and Iseult (Marcia Haydée and Ismael Ivo/2000), Babel (2000), and Mephisto (2000).

Cássia Navas
A specialist in cultural management/policies (Unesco/Université de Dijon/Ministère de la Culture/France), she is a Bachelor of Law (USP), teacher-collaborator of the Graduate Program in Performing Arts/Arts Institute/Unicamp, and doctor of dance/semiotics (PUC-SP). Ismael Ivo’s collaborator in the programs “Biblioteca do Corpo” [Body Library] (SESC São Paulo, ImPulsTanz/Viena, Culture State Department/SP/2012-2015 Editions) and the “Qualification Program in Dance/2015-2018 Editions/Cultural Workshops/Culture State Department/-SP). She wrote the texts in the book Balé da Cidade de São Paulo – 50 anos [São Paulo City Ballet – 50 years] (2019), edited under Ismael Ivo’s BCSP management, a São Paulo public-municipal company (Culture State Department/PMSP).