Alice Ripoll ^(BRA) ZONA FRANCA 13-14 November 2024

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About Alice Ripoll

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Alice Ripoll's artistic work explores the relationships between contemporary dance, theatre and traditional dance styles from Brazil. Ripoll's work has been shown in numerous festivals both in Brazil and abroad.

After studying to become a psychoanalyst, Ripoll decided to change career paths completely. It was her curiosity about the possibilities of the body that led her to start studying at Escola Angel Vianna - a centre for dance and motor rehabilitation - at the age of 21.

In her choreographic work, Ripoll creates space for the dancers to lift experiences and memories through the movement material.

Ripoll runs the dance companies REC and SUAVE. REC, founded in 2009, is a company that aims to create socially relevant performances. Recurring issues and themes are the political and social situation in Brazil. The company's dancers come from different favelas in Rio de Janeiro and the works move in expressions between performance and contemporary dance.

SUAVE was founded in 2014. Based on the dance style passinho, the energetic work was then developed Suave together with 10 dancers. The group's second performance, CRIA, premiered in 2017. Drawing inspiration from the dance style dancinha, the work explores affectionate and sensual states through an intertwining of funk (Rio de Janeiro) and contemporary dance.

Zona Franca, the group's third work, premiered in 2023 at the Festival de Marseille.