Palco Giratório brings 20 performances and 11 free attractions to Manaus

Recognized in the Brazilian cultural scene as one of the most important projects of diffusion and exchange of the Performing Arts (theater, dance, circus, urban intervention and performance), the Palco Giratório comes to Manaus, in its 22nd edition, starting this Tuesday, July 2nd. In all, will be 20 free performances and 11 cultural attractions in various parts of Manaus, from 2 to July 25.

Created in 1998, the Palco Giratório intensifies audience formation by circulating shows of the most varied genres in all Brazilian states. Many of these shows would be difficult to find commercial viability without Sesc's support.

In addition to shows for all age groups, a vast program of workshops, festivals, round tables and lectures is held with the active participation of the community, local artists and guests, promoting an exchange of enriching experiences, divulging the work of professionals from all over the country, and generating jobs for the countless workers who work in the circuit.

The shows selected by the curators have as characteristics the mixture of accents, the different artistic expressions and creation modes. Sesc is committed to supporting artistic manifestations aimed at cultural development and the democratization of national culture.

Full program of Palco Giratório 2019 in Manaus:

"Meu Seridó" - Casa de Zoé (RN) - Theater

Date/Time: July 2 - Show - 20h - Teatro Amazonas
July 3rd - Workshop - 1pm - Sesc Centro Dance Room
July 4 - Gratory Thought - 5pm - Palace of Justice
Classification: Free
Synopsis: A theater show decided to bring the backwoods of Rio Grande do Norte to Amazonas. "Meu Seridó" will provide the audience with an imaginary and delirious tour through this archaic and mythical place. A nostalgic territory of arengas and loves. In just one hour, ten thousand years will pass before the spectators' eyes. Universal when talking about the village itself, "Meu Seridó" is, above all, about the most current (and eternal) of themes. It deals with the relationship between Man and Earth - which, at the beginning of this millennium, has reached a serious impasse. Everything, of course, with a lot of humor, music, and good doses of reflection.

"If I Were Iracema" - 1Comum Coletivo (RJ) - Theater

Date/Time: July 3 - Show - 20h - Teatro Amazonas
July 5 - Interchange and Interactive Thinking - 4pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
Rating: 14 years
Synopsis: With references ranging from the myths and rituals of various native ethnicities of the country to aspects such as land demarcation and other fundamental rights, often neglected, the show proposes a look at the Brazilian indigenous universe, transiting between tradition and its current situation, and asks: what is the real possibility of coexistence between differences?

"Burnt Dress" - Soufflé de Bodó Company (AM) - Children's Theater

Date/Time: July 5th - Show - 7pm - Gebes Medeiros Theater
Classification: Free
Synopsis: A fanciful narrative about the friendship between two people, this show is the result of a scenic research project carried out by Soufflé de Bodó Company. The paper theater is an aesthetic and practical form of storytelling that greatly interested the company's members, for its relative uniqueness in the North region.

"Cria" - Cia. Suave/ Alice Ripoll (RJ) - Dance

Date/Time: July 6 - Show - 7pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
Classification: 14 years
Synopsis: This dance show, which encompasses passinho funk, dancinha and dance theater, investigates the intertwining meanings of the notion of creation. Creating a show, creating a new technique like passinho (which can be considered the first Brazilian urban dance style), creating children. The dance of the favela, of lives on a tightrope - so risky that every moment is valued. Desire insists and creates dance that is at the forefront of the world: the group has for the past four years been touring Europe with their vibrant work.

"Teatro dos Seres Imaginários" - Cia. Seres Imaginários (RS) - Theater

Date/Time: July 7 - Show - 7pm - Largo de São Sebastião
July 8th - Workshop - 1pm - Sesc Centro Theater Room
July 9 - Giratory Thought - 5pm - Palace of Justice
Classification: Free
Synopsis: Upon entering the set, the audience is faced with the unexpected. The stage is not where it should be: people are called to occupy the scenic space and start a sensitive journey to meet beings and imagination. It is a unique experience, bringing together spectators who, in the dimness of the theater, find themselves confronted by the unknown. Under the soaring flights of fantastic winged creatures, children and adults find themselves in a state of contemplation of differences, intimately connected to the world of imaginary beings.

"Bring me the Head of Lima Barreto" - Cia dos Comuns (BA - RJ) - Theater

Date/Time: July 8 - Show - 8pm - Teatro Amazonas
Rating: 14 years
Synopsis: Freely inspired in the work of Lima Barreto (1881-1922), especially in the books "Diário íntimo" and "Cemitério dos vivos", the theatrical monologue "Bring me the head of Lima Barreto" gathers excerpts of memories printed in his works, intertwined with free imagination. The fictional text begins soon after the writer's death, when eugenicists demand the exhumation of his corpse for an autopsy to clarify "how an inferior brain could have produced so many literary works - novels, chronicles, short stories, essays, and other alfarrages - if the privilege of noble art and good writing is of the superior races?" From this clash with the eugenicists, the play shows the various facets of Lima Barreto's personality and genius, his life, his family, the madness, the alcoholism, the racism, his living with poverty, his unrecognized work, his memories and sorrows.

"Chocobrothers" - Chocobrothers (SP) - Circus

Date/Time: July 11 - 7pm - Largo de São Sebastião
Classification: Free
Synopsis: Fun show that appeals to all kinds of audiences. Full of rhythm, brilliance and glamour, it combines different circus techniques, such as fixed bar, juggling and balance, with large doses of humor. The self-supporting stage also works as the basis for the acrobatic numbers. The script, well-humored, puts the characters Jeniffer, James, and Brian in embarrassing and very funny situations, in which the virtuosi stand out amidst cascades and confusions. It also features a very special soundtrack, composed of songs from the 1970s.

"A Mulher do Fim do Mundo" - Cia. Casa Circo (AP) - Dance

Date/Time: July 12 - 7pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
Rating: 14 years
Synopsis: This solo show is a shot in the dark: within a delirium, a woman is faced with the existence of a body that breathes every second to stay standing. In this delirious state, the character establishes a visceral and direct dialogue of the body and with the body, validating, through her own body and her speech, the existence of the various bodies that cross generations in a scourge called living.

"Femi-Clown Cabaret-Show" - Cabaré das Rachas (DF) - Circus

Date/Time: July 12 - Show - 9pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
July 8 to 11 - Experience - 1pm - Sesc Centro Dance Room
Rating: 18 years old
Synopsis: This proposal is a multiplying action of knowledge in circus-theater, which takes place from the meeting and sharing between women clowns and their creations. It is an uprising of the clowns' strength, fury and grace, in a feminist arena and under the canvas of affections. Performers from the circus, poetry, popular and street cultures of the cities are invited to meet the clown trio from Cabaré das Rachas for this political-affective undertaking of women's humor and clowning. The mission: to reflect, listen, talk and address female empowerment in the scene and the stages of creating a variety cabaret, with a collective and feminist dramaturgical line.

"The Dragged Woman" - Dramaturgy Diones Camargo (RS) - Theater

Date/Time: July 13 - Show - 20h - Teatro Amazonas
July 14th - Workshop - 1pm - Sesc Centro Dance Room
July 15 - Giratory Thought - 5pm - Palace of Justice
Rating: 14 years
Synopsis: Rio de Janeiro, 2014. Cláudia Silva Ferreira - a poor, black woman, 38 years old, mother of four biological and four adopted children - is brutally shot by the Military Police while leaving her home in Morro da Congonha, to buy bread for her family. After the shots were fired, her body was hurriedly thrown into the police van and dragged away alive in the middle of the traffic of Rio de Janeiro's capital, under the horrified eyes of drivers and pedestrians. Interweaving true fact and fictional narrative, this manifesto piece shows the tragic figure of Cláudia reclaiming what had been erased during the journalistic coverage of the case: her own name, replaced by the impersonal, violent and cruel nickname of "Dragged Woman".

"Cavalo Marinho Estrela de Ouro" - Cavalo Marinho Estrela de Ouro (PE) - Street Theater

Date/Time: July 15 - 7pm - Largo de São Sebastião
Classification: Free
Synopsis: Containing music, dance and theater, Cavalo Marinho is a typical game from some towns in the Zona da Mata North of Pernambuco. To the sound of the rabeca, the tambourine, the bage and the mineiro, it begins with troupes and footsteps and continues with the entrances and exits of the figures that may be animals or wearing masks made of leather, papier-mâché, gum and charcoal. During the game several figures appear that bring us to reflect about power relations, oppressor and oppressed, boss and employee. At the end, the ox appears, signaling the end of the play, and the captain, with his whistle, sings farewell toadas.

"Naquele Bairro Encantado" - Public Theater (MG) - Children's Theater

Date/Time: July 16 - 5pm - Praça do Relógio
Classification: Free
Synopsis: A group of old masked men visit a city neighborhood, populating the everyday life with nostalgic images of the past. In this scenic intervention, the audience is invited to take a walk through a neighborhood of the city, where the characters perform everyday actions and establish relationships with residents and passersby, awakening memories and sharing memories and stories.

"Das Cinzas Coração" - Quimera Criações Artísticas & Teatro Ateliê (RS) - Circus

Date/Time: July 17 - 8pm - Teatro Amazonas
Classification: 12 years
Synopsis: What is the sense of a circus-theater show of the 21st century using the language of cinema from a hundred years ago, to tell a story of female oppression set in 1920? It is because these scenes go on today in real life, in every corner, all social classes and religious or political orientations. From the ashes the heart jokes that it is silent cinema in black and white, with a live soundtrack by a period pianist. To make people laugh with Aurora, who squeezes as much poetry as possible out of her already shriveled and not very sweet home. Because we believe that there is nothing more transformative than laughter. Aristotle already said that. But we have as reference a contemporary philosopher: the brilliant filmmaker Buster Keaton.

"Aquelas - Uma dieta Pra Caber no Mundo" - Manada Teatro (CE) - Theater

Date/Time: July 18 - 8pm - Teatro Amazonas
Rating: 14 years
Synopsis: "Those" retraces the story of Maria de Bil, popular saint of the town of Várzea Alegre (CE). Murdered in 1926 by her "companion", transformed into a martyr, to this day she is a devotion icon of the people of the region. In the show, which mixes the story of the saint with the personalities of the performers, the audience is invited to participate in the preparation of an indigestible dinner involving knives, meat, blood, and other elements, offered to the table with the bodies of the actresses/performers themselves. A delicate and cruel staging that presents, through performative frames, a kaleidoscope of the diverse forms of violence in a macho society. Bon appetit!

"R.A.L.E. (Appropriate Reality Releases Evidence)" - Jessé Batista (AL) - Dance

Date/Time: July 19 - 7pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
Rating: 12 years
Synopsis: This show is about a body imprisoned by a political sense that disfavors a third of the huge Brazilian population. It is not the question of remaining and belonging to that place, but of being treated as just a mere body. A body built as an expenditure of muscular energy, in the midst of streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, ups and downs, in an unequal city. Environments in which one of the greatest challenges for the human being is to sustain himself in front of his own body.

"Subterranean" - Gumboot Dance Brazil (SP) - Dance

Date/Time: July 20 - 7pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
Classification: Free
Synopsis: Conceived as an experimental mediation program, Black Performance in Brazil intends to make black production in the performance field visible from creation laboratories, listening, field research and exchange with black researchers and directors. This process takes place over a period of 5 to 7 days, with the artists residing in the cities through which they pass. The goal is to think the colonial and its dismantling through discussions on race/color, permeated by gender issues and black memories that engender ways of being different from the colonial western model. The action intersects training processes in performance, audiovisual and urban intervention.

"Voa" - Coletivo Antônia (DF) - Children's Theater

Date/Time: July 21 - 5pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
Classification: Free
Synopsis: Loosely inspired by Rubem Alves' "The Girl and the Enchanted Bird," "Voa" travels the path of subtleties and senses, dealing with complicity and longing, but mostly with freedom. The girls and the birds that inhabit the tale play, in the show, with many possible friendship relationships, in ambiences that stimulate the baby's interaction with the lights, the sounds, the scents and the scenography. Between the comings and goings of a traveling bird, "Voa" transgresses the traditional notions of time, space, and love. The company's second show, "Voa" premiered in February 2017, with absolute success with audiences and critics. Since then, it has been tracing paths of circulation and expansion. It was the only show for babies selected for the 18th edition of the Brasília International Theater Festival - Cena Contemporânea.

"TANDAN!" - Cia. Etc. (PE) - Children's Dance

Date/Time: July 22 and 23 - 2pm - Les Artistes Café Teatro
Classification: Free
Synopsis: An immersive dance experience using tactile stimuli, a sound installation, and interaction with dancers. A show that sees the issue of accessibility of the performance to visually impaired people as a creative stimulus, not as a translation. "Tandan!" is inspired by the works of Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, with their provocations of the act of perceiving the visual arts in a broader sensory appreciation of the work. The show is dedicated to the children audience, especially children from 5 to 9 years old, and each child will have an individual 6-minute experience.

"Risk" - Urban Fragment (AM) - Theater

Date/Time: July 24 - 8pm - Teatro Amazonas
Classification: Free

"Helena" - Ateliê 23 (AM) - Theater

Date/Time: July 25 - 8pm - Teatro Amazonas
Rating: 16 years
Synopsis: The play narrates in a non-chronological way the story of a woman, mother, teacher, and Brazilian. The direction is by Taciano Soares, Helena's son, being the same inspiration for the dramaturgical narrative. The montage is part of the research that the company has been deepening in these five years of existence and that brings, since the show 'Persona - Face One', in 'Teatros do Real', where all the dramaturgy construction is based on real stories and serve as a conductor thread for the scenic construction.

Addresses:

Dance and Theater rooms of the Sesc Activities Center - Rua Henrique Martins, 427, Centro
Les Artistes Café Teatro - Sete de Setembro, 377, Center
Justice Palace - Eduardo Ribeiro, 901, Downtown
Gebes Medeiros Theater - Av. Eduardo Ribeiro, 937, Downtown
Amazonas Theater - Av. Eduardo Ribeiro, Downtown

More information: (92) 3198-2000 or at site.

With information from the press office