Luciana Elias as a ballerina-performer in collaboration with other artists
IN PERFORMANCE
2020 - João Pessoa, Brazil
Sonata para a Mulher Azul
Synopsis: The "Mulher Azul" (blue woman) is the woman who crosses the timeline between generations of women in my maternal family. It is the woman who is born from clay, in northeastern's arid soil, and who continuously resists adversity.
Much like powerful pollens, she sales through streams and rivers, breezes and gales and then flows into the sea. A brine of affections.
Filmmaking: Lorena Barlavento
2019 - Bräsen, Germany
I Miss Myself
DIRECTED BY MINAKO SEKI
Butoh performance, in art residency with Minako Seki, in collaboration with the performer Moritz Bonatti. A radical investigation of Seki Method's ''Bouncing" technique.
Costume Design: Jay Boggo
Photo: Nils Willers
2019 - Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Recuerdos de Clarice
MOVEMENT COACHED BY MINAKO SEKI
Butoh performance triggered by the proposal of the mere performatic improvisation, and inspired by an authorial piece of poetry.
2012 - Marrakech, Morroco
Performance OUI
Performance in collaboration with the Moroccan artist Driss Maarouf.
Synopsis: An encounter between two distant worlds, two external and internal realities, two distinct cultural universes, and many expectations. The artwork takes place between what is not said, named or signified. It's a live and breathing construction. Being and breathing together. Discovering yourself both in front and inside of another.
Collaboration: Union Marrocaine des Arts Dramatique
2018 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Performance "Intimidades entre Tanos y Eros"
DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY
GUSTAVO COLLINI SATOR
Sinopse: Artistic investigation of body tensions, both physical and emotional, using Japanese shibari techniques. The performance explores, in dance movement, a dialogue between life and death , navigating through memories of both performers.
Perfomers: Luciana Elias (Brazil) Marcelo Barrionuevo (Argentina).
Assistance: Lisy Jaramillo
2017 - Gottingen, Germany
Presentation "Ha-Dō"
DIRECTED BY TADASHI ENDO
Butoh presentation in honour of the refugees who were killed in the Mediterranean Sea. What happens on stage is an homage, in body movement, to those who weren't able to have their last dance.
Presented at the Theater Junges Theater Gottingen.
Conception and Direction:Tadashi Endo
Music: Daniel Maia
Photographs:Maciej Rusinek
Cast:
Milton Aires - Franca Burandt - Zora Boas - Andrea Casallas - Miguel Choni - Indiana Coole - Natascha Doronina - Natalia Duborov - Luciana Elias - Franziska Gerth - Dagmar Günther - Daniela Günther - Michael Huth - Noelia Jimenez - Uwe Martin - Sandro Masai - Patrick Mendes - Nora Otte- Isabella Schwaller- Fernando Zamora- Tadashi Endo
2016 - João Pessoa, Paraíba - Brazil
Performance SOBRE O BRANCO III e IV
Performance presented at Galeria Louro e Canela by the artists: Luciana Elias (Dance), Jô Cortez (Painting) and Felipe Avelar de Aquino (Cello).
Synopsis: An intersection between gesture, sound and colour where three artists from different artistic areas encounter one another before a blank room. An artistic improvisation somehow begins. It is a profound work of artistic involvement and in scene dialogue through the contamination of one artist by another.
Photography: Jonas Lourenço
2015 - São Paulo, Brazil
Performance H (Á) T E M P O
Butoh Performance , with Luciana Elias e Rafaela Gagnebin Müller.
Synopsis: H(á) tempo is about the memory of time inside of the body. A live search for subjective places and affections that doesn't have a form, a voice, or a colour yet. The unshaped things that are hidden inside, are just waiting for the opportunity of a conscious manifestation.
Photography: Ligia Jardim
Collaboration: João Fierro e Sandra Arbex
2013 - Joao Pessoa, Brasil
Performance SOBRE O BRANCO I e II
II. Performance presented at Estação Ciência Cultura e Arte with Luciana Elias, Jô Cortez Lourenço e Felipe Avellar de Aquino
l. Performance presented at Galeria Louro e Canela
Galeria Louro & Canela with Luciana Elias, Jô Cortez Lourenço e Felipe Avellar de Aquino
Photography: Ligia Jardim
DESBAILE
2013 - São Paulo, Brazil
PERFORMANCE DESBAILE III
DEBAILE is a performance created as an attempt to "undress" one's own body. A possibility to resignify both physical and gestural marks, or even memories of classical ballet lingers on the performer's body.
A dance is created as a way of looking, revisiting, transforming, honouring and deconstructing, in performance, this classical ballet body that has been a technical instructor for movement, as well as a place of emotional and physical trauma for the artist.
In a keen look inside herself, the performer experiences the traces left by the classical dance on her body. Light or shadow, everything is valid in this performance, as a kind of permission the artist gives herself to contemplate, express, let go, witness and perhaps even delight herself in the ballerina's pointe shoes.
2012 - São Paulo, Brasil
