aCORdo

After the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, theatre maker and choreographer Alice Ripoll was invited to create a piece about the impact of the events on the Brazilian city. Ripoll chose to work from the point of view of those for whom the city has nothing or almost nothing to offer: black residents of the favelas, literally placed on the fringes of Brazilian society.

In her raw and impulsive piece, Ripoll highlights the everyday reality of Rio de Janeiro. This overcrowded metropolis is characterised by invisible but strictly controlled borders that separate the poor from the rich.
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Four dancers, dressed in identical costumes, face the audience in a demarcated area. Through their gestures, situations, and interactions, which often show confrontation and violence, they create a new space between themselves and the audience. In the framed ITA Studio, they explore alternatives to bounded spaces and bodies.

aCORdo highlights the social, racial, and territorial inequalities deeply embedded in Brazilian society. Through the almost corporeal experience the work offers to the audience, aCORdo manifests itself as a distinctly political work. Alice Ripoll: "Dance creates mysterious, unpredictable and unusual bridges; therein lies its power and capacity for transformation."