CONTEMPORARY DANCE BRAZIL



@cleniomagalhaes
magalhaescleniodance@hotmail.com
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CLÊNIO MAGALHÃES, Born in September 20, 1976 in GV City, MG, Brazil.


He is a Brazilian teacher, interpreter and choreographer since 1995. Graduated from UFBA - Federal University of Bahia from 1996 to 2003. Researcher in PPGDANÇA UFBA 2021. Posgraduated Dancetherapy UNYLEYA 2021. Contemporary Dance Teacher in CFA/FUNCEB 2021. He taught in UNIVALE - University of Vale do Rio Doce in GV City in the Faculty of Physic Education and UNIPAC - Universidade Presidente Antonio Carlos both in Governador Valadares city, MG - Brazil. 

Worked with Maurício de Souza Productions in Curitiba PR BR (1998 -2000) for two years. 
Returning to Bahia, he was discovered by choreographer Cristina Castro, director of Viladança Dance Company and passed in this CIA for three years. In 2003, Magalhães left the CIA to establish his independent career. 
His works made audiences reflect about the future dance language like as “Oposto” (2004, for the Atelier of Brazilian Choreographs in Castro Alves Theater) which proposal is not lonely dance but also letters, and “Furta Cor n.2” (2005, for the streets), the choreography followed to paint T-Shirts and after drawing those T-Shirts are for sale. His trade marks as a choreographer is the conceptualism, crafting and diversity, totaling fifteen works in thirteen years.  
He worked as an interpreter in work in progress, workshop, collaborations and others with Artmacadam FR, Grupo X, Cristina Castro BR, Leo Kay GB, Helena Waldmann GE, Nana Shineflug US, Simone Erbeck GE, Marta Bezerra BR, Fafá Daltro BR, Sandra de Oliveira BR, Gilberto Hastenreiter BR, Ronaldo Reis BR, Luciana de Souza Pereira BR, Líria Morays BR, Gal Quaresma BR, Kenya Sampaio BR, Haroldo Fernandes BR US Edu O. BR, HIBRIDUS BR, FLUX Cia de Dança BR, Iran Sampaio BR, C.I.Cênica, among others. 
As a teacher he proposes a possibility to adopt dance class in primary, junior-high and high school for the purpose of knowledge of their own body, responsibility, creativity, alterity and health alternative. Through his dance works he traveled for nine Brazilian states, Marseille, La Seyne Sur Mer, Sanary, Cardier d'Azur, Brignoles and Le Pradet in France, Lörrach and Berlin in Germany and Tokyo in Japan
He was selected in Klauss Vianna awards by FUNARTE – 2010 – with the project DANCON Liga cultural de dança with NA PELE Laboratório de Produções - Belo Horizonte (MG). 
He worked as a performer in Humble Market by Zecora Ura London-Brazil - FUNARTE - Belo Horizonte 2014.
Currently Clênio Magalhães is interested in Dancetherapy and Urban Space.
Author of the book O Corpo Ciente: Ampliando o campo da experiência motora 2021.
Awards: 
2º place category: Tail of International Festival of Literature Arnaldo Giraldo 2007;
1º place category actor, 1º place category scenography: National Festival of Theater GV City MG 2007;
1º place category scenography: FACE – Conselheiro Lafaiete MG 2007;
1º place category dancer: FTI - International Festival of Theater Ipatinga MG 2008;
Selected in Atelier of Brazilian Choreographers Salvador BA 2004.


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O CORPO CIENTE
Ampliando o campo da experiência motora
2021

The relentless and cyclical search for self-knowledge is an endless ignition. Cyclic because from time to time we even change the way of reacting to emotions, we soon realize and we interpret the world from other perspectives. Tireless as each person experiences this singularly seeks to generate continuous transformations that surround and affect us. Even if the body gets tired, the changes persist whether on large or smaller scales. The each line read, for each movement performed, a new person shows itself, a new space-time happens, a new world presents itself. Whatever type of practice chosen for better assist the self-understanding, the movement it is an inevitable part of the process. 

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DANÇA ZERO
ZERO DANCE
2014 to 2020



The ZERO DANCE project begins in August 23, 2014 at Praça da Liberdade ( Freedom Square ) Belo Horizonte city Minas Gerais state Brazil. Consists of weekly meetings inviting people to come to stretch movements that gradually are becoming aerobic so we can enjoy the qualities of the movement for better mental and physical health together. The event is free. Anyone can come and dance with us. It ocurred in Governador Valadares MG and Salvador BA, in more than 200 weekly meetings.
HIS WORKS:
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PURA
2018


Life, memory and people is the conceptual tripod of the PURA show. Life is this ephemeral moment that carries us and crosses us, the memory of every second that comes and goes, that stays and passes impregnated in our DNA and people who are born and die in a constant cycle that is pure dance to sensitive eyes.

The show opens CCP the first company in the Professional Course of the FUNCEB BA BRAZIL School of Dance.

CONCEPTION, CHOREOGRAPHY
 MAGALHÃES, Clênio.
CHOREOGRAPHY ASSISTENCE 
LIMA, Fabiana
MUSICAL CONCEPTION
COSTA, Ricardo
GUEST INTERPRET CREATERS 
LIMA, Fabiana; SILVA, Deyse; BRITO, Gadriela; CERQUEIRA, Beto; SOUZA, Clara; NOGUEIRA, Jão; REIS, Mila; SENA, Marília; SOUZA, Rafa; ZAMBERG, Roque; FLORES, Maria.
COSTUMES
BRITO, Niégila; GUEVARA, Lenine and guest interprete creaters
POINTS PREP
CAVALCANTE, Janahina
SIGN LANGUAGE LIBRAS TEACHER
COPQUE,Sumaia
COLABORATERS   
FIDELIS, Márcio
PHOTO
MAIA, Ravena
PRODUCTION
OLIVEIRA, Júnior;  BITTENCOURT, Ivana;  GOTTSCHALK,Viviane

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Camaleões - Espetáculo Festa Contemporânea
Chameleons - Contemporary Party-Spectacle
2011 to 2013



This project consists of social events such as a party where the audience is invited to interact with body painting and express their ideas through dance. The spectacle was created from a research. This process started in Salvador city and developed in Governador Valadares passed through the cities of Conselheiro Lafaiete, Belo Horizonte in Brazil and La Seyne Sur Mer in France. 
The Contemporary Party-Spectacle Chameleons was presented in Governador Valadares, Belo Horizonte and Teófilo Otoni MG BR.

CONCEPTION, 
 MAGALHÃES, Clênio.
GUEST INTERPRET CREATERS 
MAIA, Cibele;  KATAI, Aki;  MAGALHÃES, Clênio; NER, Thayn.
COLABORATERS   
ARTMACADAM, Euphorico; JOYCE, Sandra; MENDES, Maurício
AUDIO
DENADAI, DJ
PHOTO
LIMA, Netum



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Arvorar Project
 Upraise project 2008


Up and down the trees and do little handworks with organic elements to stimulate creativity and to experiment on movements, “Arvorar Project” aims at interacts contemporary dance with visual arts and nature. The fundamental idea of project is to seek various forms of interpret the tale Arvorar by Clênio Magalhães, winner of International Festival of Literature Arnaldo Giraldo (2007).      The first experiment was a big installation that was composed of leaves, branches, soil, water, fire, computers and recycled materials. In the second experiment, he covered the floor with sand to draw movements which had created in the trees tops of the dance in form of paint and the third, through video, propose an interaction within real and virtual movements in trees tops. In the third experiment, he invited the actor Maurício Mendes and Tamaki Yonekura to do a monologue with the text.

CONCEPTION, SCENE, COSTUME, VISUAL PROGRAM, PHOTO AND INTERPRETATION  MAGALHÃES, Clênio.
GUEST INTERPRET CREATERS 
MENDES, Maurício; MARTINS, Célio and LITHIUM, Emylia.
COLABORATERS   
ROZATO, Kátia; PIMENTA, Bruno; ROSA, Gessé and JUNIO, Flávio.
AUDIO PROGRAM, VIDEO AND PHOTO
YONEKURA, Tamaki; MAGALHÃES, Cleider
PRODUCTION
MENDES, Maurício; ENARTCi – 2008.
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Quem matou Maria Helena ?
 Who killed Maria Helena? 2007
Comedy monologue, by awarded Brazilian theater author Claudio Simões that narrates fictitious history of Mário Augusto. He is a lonely and maladroit man and he is involved the worst situation when he discovers that his girlfriend was assassinated in his home.
All schemes happen in his apartment, while he tries to disclose the mystery across clues and secret telephone calls. He needs prove his innocence. The plot is written like a soap opera to aim to provoke reflection about the violence and gauge TV.
TEXT  SIMÕES, Claudio
DIRECTION  OLIVEIRA, Sandra
INTERPRETATION  MAGALHÃES, Clênio
AUDIO PROGRAM  JUNIO, Flavio

LIGHT DESIGN   PIMENTA, Bruno
HAIR AND MAKE UP  AXER, Alfredo
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN  YONEKURA, Tamaki;               MAGALHÃES, Clênio
PRODUCTION  art-ist 
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Dos sonhos

(By dreams) 2007

            This work is an installation created for actors as a result of workshop. The course of twenty hours consists in research movements of what we do while sleeping and the signification by our dreams in our life.
In installation the public can see the actors “sleeping” all the time and follow particulars histories like as sleepwalker. The performances are funny, calm and contaminant.
 
DIRECTION, TEACHING
MAGALHÃES, Clênio
ACTORS
OLIVEIRA, Sandra; MENDES, Maurício; QUEIROZ, Mônica; MAGALHÃES, Clênio; CONCEIÇÃO, ANA
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Banquete
 Banquet 2006
 Body, light, clothes, music and verb, which are the ingredients used to prepare the show’s recipe. Banquet is a raw and sample dish to eat with hands. Implicit things in the simplicity are secrets of this recipe. The choreography is poetry, combining the propriety of the movement with the peculiar capacity of the contemporary dance.
The principal point is the verb TO EAT. This word which is inspired by authors like as ANDRADE, Oswald; FREUD, Sigmund; RIBEIRO, João Ubaldo and so on, is directly connected with sexual and anthropophagic ambit in this spectacle. Scenes express the relationship, what do they do and talk about the others.
This spectacle was presented in Governador Valadares MG BR, Salvador BA BR, Estancia Climática de Caconde SP BR, Araçuaí and Ipatinga MG BR, Toulon France.

CONCEPTION, SCENOGRAPHY, COSTUME, VISUAL PROGRAM, PHOTO AND INTERPRETATION  

 MAGALHÃES, Clênio.

LIGHT PROGRAM BELMIRO, Everaldo
MUSICS
MUSOTTO, Ramiro Bayaka
GARRAMONE, Mintcho Salvatania
MORAIS , Leandro Calcinhas
BOEING , Dj and
MAGALHÃES, Clênio Talheres
PRODUCTION  GRECCO, Paula; YONEKURA, Tamaki

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furta cor

  iridescent  2005

This project consists of performances involving dance, theater, paint, visual arts, music and fashion. The chiefly theme is multicolor of races that are originated from miscegenation. The first experiment is a big installation composite for musical band, actors, dancers, children, roses, clown noises, paper, coal, red fabric, chalk in dust, blacks and white clothes, lipsticks, black cards and bananas. The performance is formed for scenic games about races relation. The second experiment is a small installation composed of whites t-shirts, white, black, yellow and red tints and a green carpet. The performance consists in paint t-shirts while dancing and after the performance sell them. The idea is to materialize the dance in a stamp and to sell them as a piece. How much is a dance? How much is a movement? These questions are the critical point of this choreography.
CONCEPTION, SCENE, COSTUME, VISUAL PROGRAM AND INTERPRETATION  MAGALHÃES, Clênio.
INTERPRETS CREATERS GRAMACHO, Catarina; O.,Edu; SOARES, Igor; HASTENREITER, Brenda; ESTER, Iara; CONCEIÇÃO, Ana; SENA, Fábio; LINS, Carlos; OLIVEIRA, Sandra; SUELLEN, Agna; ARETHA; MIRCA; WELLINGTON
MUSICIANS  MAGALHÃES, Crystian; ABREU, Samuel de; JUNIO, Flavio; ESTER, Iara, SUELLEN, Agna; JUNIOR, Alair
VISUAL PROGRAM  YONEKURA, Tamaqui; SOARES, Igor; MAGALHÃES, Clênio
PRODUCTION  LÁ e CÁ art staff, GRAMACHO, Catarina; ESTER, Iara; MAGALHÃES, Crystian

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Oposto
  opposite 2004
In all the senses I think about opposition to one thing and others, considering the positive and negative sense that is the theme of this work. For that the work doesn’t follow a specific opposition, the choreography utilize stimulus the cold and hot temperature for create movements. To express cold temperature, the dancers represent mimic, dialogues like dancing phrases, and hot group the dancers represent senses like a melody of a musical instrument. To cold the movement is broken, accurate and angular to hot the movement is continuo, ambiguous and floppy. Like a war, the two groups dispute the scenic space creating frontiers. The choreography starts simple, easy, exact, and cold, ending complex, difficult, ambiguous and hot. Like everything in the universe, this work is considered the theory about entropy, where the hot group movement wins the history. In theater act, the work has a screen made with metal of rests by refrigerator and stove and six dancers. In performance act, the work is structured with scaffold, an ice block, fabric in kerosene, fire and two dancers.

DIRECTION MAGALHÃES, Clênio
CHOREOGRAPHY ASSISTENCE SANTOSJofre
GUEST INTERPRET CREATERCALDAS, David; GRAMACHO, Catarina; OLIVEIRA, Markley; OLIVEIRA, Agatha; CRUZ, Wagner
VIDEO PROGRAM YONEKURA, Tamaki
LIGHT PROGRAM VIDAL, Irma AUDIO PROGRAM MAIA, Guilherme
SCENOGRAPHY JUNIOR, Zuarte COSTUME DESIGN HERACLITO, Airson
PRODUCTION EP Produções

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Balança, mas não cai
  Swing, but don't fall 2003
The Brazil, chiefly the state of Bahia, experiment all years a cathartic moment named carnival. In this party “everything is going”. The country becomes a great commercial, musical and touristic space and the participants are named “foliões”. In all over the world, a lot of people came to collaborate with many indexes that measure the event. It’s a true mix of dances, bodies, cultures, violence, love, meetings, attaches, dies, births, money, steals, alienations, originality forming antagonisms that do the party a contemporary show in mass. The fantasy blends with reality, profane with religion during three or more days that end in gray Wednesday. “Swing, but don’t fall” dialogues with the Brazilian people that even live with difficulty however is a smiling nation. The signs of carnival promote news meetings like a peace’s agent. This work integrates the repertory of Grupo Imagem of Federal University of Bahia UFBA in the Faculty of dance.
DIRECTION AQUINO, Dulce; PINHEIRO, Juçara; SETENTA, Jussara
CHOREOGRAPHY MAGALHÃES, Clênio CHOREOGRAPHY ASSISTENCE GIORDANO, Paloma
INTERPRETS CREATERS DOMINGAS, Clara; VALENTE, Brisa; DINIZ, Carol; QUEIROZ, Flávia; CASTAGNO, Flávia; LUCCA, Henrique; GIORDANO, Paloma; OLIVEIRA, Leandro; CALDAS, David; MAGALHÃES, Clênio; GRAMACHO, Catarina; GALVÃO, Marcelo; SAMPAIO, Kênya; MORAYS, Líria; BANDEIRA, Thais; AQUINO, Thainah.
MUSICAL DIRECTION MORAIS, Leandro  LIGHT PROGRAM BELMIRO, Everaldo
HAIR AND MAKE UP Bahia Estética; SANTANA, Jorge; OLIVEIRA, Jair
TEACHERS MAGALHÃES, Clênio contemporary dance; PIMENTEL, Aroaldo classic ballet; MORAYS, Líria contemporary dance; ORTIZ, Freddy pilates
PHOTOGRAPHY VISUAL PROGRAM YONEKURA, Tamaqui
PRODUCTION GRAMACHO, Catarina; AQUINO, Thainah

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Um quarto do paraíso
  A quarter of paradise 2002
This work immerges in atmosphere of pornography, eroticism with other references about sex. Authors like FREUD, SADE, BOCAGE, DECAMERON served like inspiration to create the choreographic movements. A quarter of paradise integrates the repertory of Grupo Imagem of Federal University of Bahia UFBA in the Faculty of dance.
DIRECTION AQUINO, Dulce; PINHEIRO, Juçara; SETENTA, Jussara
CHOREOGRAPHY MAGALHÃES, Clênio

INTERPRETS CREATERS DOMINGAS, Clara; VALENTE, Brisa; DINIZ, Carol; QUEIROZ, Flávia; CAVALCANTE, Flávia; LUCCA, Henrique; GIORDANO, Paloma; OLIVEIRA, Leandro; CALDAS, David; MAGALHÃES, Clênio; GRAMACHO, Catarina; GALVÃO, Marcelo; SAMPAIO, Kênya; BANDEIRA, Thais; AQUINO, Thainah.
MUSICAL COMPOSITION MORAIS, Leandro. MUSICISTS SANTIAGO, Angelo acustic bass; SANTIAGO, Gil drum; ANDREIA, Thais singer; GUIMA, Davi violin; ILMA and LEONI, Dênis cello; MORAIS, Leandro preparate piano, electronic drum and percussion; DECAUDIN, Elsa; SAMPAIO, Kênya; ERBECK, Simone; ANDREIA, Thais; YONEKURA, Tamaki voices; CELSO, Gilmário electronic bass; AMORIM, Pedro record tecnic;
LIGHT PROGRAM BELMIRO, Everaldo
SCENOGRAPHY MAGALHÃES, Clênio; DINIZ, Carol; SANTANA, Ricardo
COSTUME DESIGN SANTANA, Luis
HAIR AND MAKE UP Bahia Estética; SANTANA, Jorge; OLIVEIRA, Jair
PHOTOGRAPHY MAGALHÃES, Clênio; YONEKURA, Tamaki, OLIVEIRA, Markley; LIMA, Márcio
TEACHERS BORRACHA capoeira; JÚNIOR, Celso theater; MAGALHÃES, Clênio contemporary dance; ARRASCOYTA, Fernando massage; MORAYS, Líria contemporary dance; MIGNAC, Márcia belly dance
VISUAL PROGRAM YONEKURA, Tamaki  PRODUCTION LÁ e CÁ art staff, GRAMACHO, Catarina; YONEKURA, Tamaki

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Aceito...!
  I accept...! 2002
There are two fictitious personages. They are alone and keen to escape from solitude, so decide to go to the theater. They don’t imagine what happen in their life before beginning show, in other words, to fall in love. They promise to love and respect forever.  “I accept...!” is contemporary dance based on conjugal relation: duo, contact improvisation, repetition, drama and humor of which techniques are used to express passionate, broken and delicious heart.
CONCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION MAGALHÃES, Clênio; MORAYS, Líria
GUEST ACTOR JUNIOR, Jorge; MENDES, Michael and MORAIS, Pedro
GUEST DANCER GRAMACHO, Catarina; GRECCO, Giovanna
TEXT O.,Edu
MUSICAL COMPOSITION MORAIS, Leandro
SCENOGRAPHY AND COSTUME SANTANA, Luis; SOARES, Igor.

LIGHT PROGRAM SAMPAIO, Kênya
LIGHT OPERATION SOARES, Igor
HAIR AND MAKE UP GRECCO, Giovanna
VISUAL PROGRAM FREITAS, Vivi; YONEKURA, Tamaqui
PHOTOGRAPHY GUERRA, Zazo; SILVA, Jorge; FREITAS, Dió; SOARES, Igor; GRECO, Paula
PRODUCTION SIMÕES, Sandra; GRAMACHO, Catarina; GRECCO, Paula.

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Gravidade 0.5
  gravity 0.5 2001
This solo is a choreography of five minutes and created while student. The idea is to talk about the challenge to gravity of classical ballet. The controversy broke out when a professor of ballet gave me 0.5 point of which max point is 2. Since then the scores is added to subtitle of choreography. 
CONCEPTION, SCENE, FASHION
PLATES, VISUAL PROGRAM, PHOTO  AND INTERPRETATION
 MAGALHÃES, Clênio.
MUSIC
ELGAR VIOLIN

PHOTOGRAPHY
YONEKURA, Tamaki
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 Amor eu sempre Caio  Love, I always Caio   2000


Monologue of the Brazilian author Caio Fernando Abreu’s texts which narrate fictitious histories of three personages: a faun, a woman and a man. They have something in common, which is to fall in love. The faun talks about his heart, the woman is crazy remembering the childhood love and the man is sad because of a letter by his missed love.
All schemes happen during 45 minutes like a psychoanalysis session.

TEXT ABREU, Caio Fernando
DIRECTION REIS, Ronaldo
ACTOR MAGALHÃES, Clênio

TEACHER BISPO, Jairson body preparation

VISUAL PROGRAM BATISTA, Bel; AMANTI, Gil; O., Edu
COSTUME O., Edu; MAGALHÃES, Clênio
PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID, Cláudio; SILVA, Jorge
LIGHT PROGRAM FUEZI, Robson; SAMPAIO, Kênya

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Samba-canção
Pants  1999 




There are two fictitious personages. They are alone and keen to escape from solitude, so decide to go to the theater. They don’t imagine what happen in their life before beginning show, in other words, to fall in love. This work conceives about relationship of lovers of same sex.
CONCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION
MAGALHÃES, Clênio
GUEST INTERPRET CREATER 
MARTINS, Célio;

RAMOS, Zunk;
BRACCHI,Danilo;
CARLA, Isis,
MORAYS, Líria.
TEXT
O., Edu and ABREU,
Caio Fernando
AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAM
YONEKURA, Tamaki

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