
Photo: Renato Mangolin
LAVAGEM is the name of Alice Ripoll’s latest creation with the REC Group. Using buckets, water, soap, and soap foam, several generations of Brazilians spent thei whole lives working as cleaners while a racist hegemony considered them dirty.
With this performance, Alice Ripoll investigates this ambivalence using
the act of cleaning as a starting point to create poignant images, considering its scenic and historical unfolding.
With this performance, Alice Ripoll investigates this ambivalence using
the act of cleaning as a starting point to create poignant images, considering its scenic and historical unfolding.
When asked about the border wall that separates the U.S. and Mexico, Pepe Mujica ironically replied: “Who is going to clean their houses?” In LAVAGEM, the questions are: What actually needs to be cleaned? The houses, the dirt in the rooms? Or the sophisticated strategies that aim to make some people become invisible? The trails, the history, the scents of fluids – water from bodies – we smell when we come closer?
Soap foam colours the bodies; the bubbles suggest a world of dreams.
By building a close relationship with the audience, and with the aim of finding new ways to establish contact between performers and spectators, the group proposes the experience of a shared space using bodies and ideas.
Soap foam colours the bodies; the bubbles suggest a world of dreams.
By building a close relationship with the audience, and with the aim of finding new ways to establish contact between performers and spectators, the group proposes the experience of a shared space using bodies and ideas.
Director
Alice Ripoll
Original idea
Alan Ferreira
Performers
Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Rômulo Galvão, Tony
Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento
Production Director
Natasha Corbelino | Corbelino Cultural
Production and set assistant
Thais Peixoto
Photos and teaser
Renato Mangolin
Artistic assistant
Laura Samy
Set designer
Raquel Theo
Alice Ripoll
Original idea
Alan Ferreira
Performers
Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Rômulo Galvão, Tony
Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento
Production Director
Natasha Corbelino | Corbelino Cultural
Production and set assistant
Thais Peixoto
Photos and teaser
Renato Mangolin
Artistic assistant
Laura Samy
Set designer
Raquel Theo
Costume designer
Paula Ströher
Light designer
Andrea Capella
Tour planning
ART HAPPENS
Support
Rafael Machado Fisioterapia, Centro Coreográfico do Rio de Janeiro
Coprodution
Kunstenfetivaldesarts
PACT Zollverein
Kaserne Basel
Wiener Festwochen
Julidans
Festival de la Cité Lausanne
PASSAGES - Festival International
Romaeuropa Festival and Teatro di Roma - Teatro Nazionale
Paula Ströher
Light designer
Andrea Capella
Tour planning
ART HAPPENS
Support
Rafael Machado Fisioterapia, Centro Coreográfico do Rio de Janeiro
Coprodution
Kunstenfetivaldesarts
PACT Zollverein
Kaserne Basel
Wiener Festwochen
Julidans
Festival de la Cité Lausanne
PASSAGES - Festival International
Romaeuropa Festival and Teatro di Roma - Teatro Nazionale
Special thanks: Alexandre Belfort, Sulamita Costa, Juliana França, André Oliveira,
Walace Ferreira, Juliete Schultz, Mauricio Lima, Pedro Bento, Thamires Candida, Dilo Paulo, Diewry Patrick, Lenna Santos de Siqueira, Camila Rocha, Centro Coreográfico da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Arnoldo Pereira de Souza, Anita Tandeta, Camila Moura Renato Linhares, Cecilia Ripoll, Casa de Mystérios e Novidades.
Photos
By Renato Mangolin








Agenda 2020
8 - 12 may
Brussel (BE)
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
15 - 16 may
Basel (CH)
Kaserne
5 - 7 jun
Vienna (IT)
Wiener Festwochen
10 jun
Lille (FR)
Latitudes Contemporaines
7 - 8 jul
Amsterdam (NL)
Julidans
11 - 12 jul
Lausanne (CH)
Festival de la Cité
8 - 12 may
Brussel (BE)
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
15 - 16 may
Basel (CH)
Kaserne
5 - 7 jun
Vienna (IT)
Wiener Festwochen
10 jun
Lille (FR)
Latitudes Contemporaines
7 - 8 jul
Amsterdam (NL)
Julidans
11 - 12 jul
Lausanne (CH)
Festival de la Cité
Technical info
Around 12m x 12m, for 100 people in the public.
A square rather than a rectangular room is preferable.
Some types of floors are possible. It must be possible to crawl and to roll. The floor needs to be able to get wet.
Around 12m x 12m, for 100 people in the public.
A square rather than a rectangular room is preferable.
Some types of floors are possible. It must be possible to crawl and to roll. The floor needs to be able to get wet.