Photo: Renato Mangolin


In Alice Ripoll and Cia. REC's latest work, "Lavagem", reality and fantasy mix together in a delirium, reminding us of an apocalyptic dream.
With the help of buckets, water, and soap, this performance investigates ambivalent images taking into account, and critically observing, the act of cleaning and its scenic and historical unfolding. The elements used here create multiple poetic images of exodus, crossings, rituals, rebirth, and resistance.

In Brazilian Portuguese, the word "lavagem" means cleanliness, the act of cleaning, hygienization, but it also means pigswill. “Lavagem de dinheiro”, or money laundering, is an expression used to disguise the illicit origin of revenues. “Lavagem cerebral”, or brainwashing, is what you do to force someone to think a certain way. "Alma lavada", or cleansed soul, means we have experienced great relief and now feel peaceful, with no pending matters to resolve.

What actually needs to be cleaned? The houses, the dirt inside the rooms? The trails left behind, the historical facts? The scents of body fluids, those we smell when we come close to each other? Soap foam colours the bodies and hints at invisibility; bubbles suggest a world of dreams, standing in stark contrast to the severe lack of social mobility in the real world.



The audience may look at this piece from a pictorial point of view, but they might also feel touched by issues relating to social status and hierarchy, destinies previously traced, and opportunities.

By building a close relationship with the audience, this piece fosters the possibility of finding new ways to establish contact between performers and spectators, proposing a new experience of a shared space. Physical closeness can evoke claustrophobia, and suggest concrete or symbolic tightness; but it can also present itself as a cosy womb, where smells, skin textures, and the warmth that emanates from the bodies are perceived.

"Lavagem" presents an ancestral past filled with struggles, but also with secrets about joy and cheerfulness.








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

Costume designer
Paula Ströher

Light designer
Tomas Ribas

Light
Nadja Naira

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 2021

Lavagem
28 jun - 02 jul
Vienna (AT)
Wiener Festwochen

Lavagem
06 - 0 jul
Lausanne (CH)
Festival de la Cité

Lavagem
12 -13 jul
Theaterformen
Hannover (DE)

Lavagem
15 - 16 jul
Amsterdam (NL)
Julidans

Lavagem
8 sep
Passages Transfestival
Metz (FR)

Lavagem
11 - 12 Sep
La Batie
Genebra (CH)

Lavagem
15 - 19 Sep
Paris (FR)
Festival d'Automne à Paris & La Villette

Lavagem
24 - 25 Sep
Marseille (FR)
Actoral

Lavagem
29 - 30 Sep
Ghent (BE)
Vooruit

Lavagem
05 - 06 Oct
Basel (CH)
Kaserne

Lavagem
09 - 10 Oct
Bienal BoCa
Lissabon (PT)

Lavagem
15 - 16 Oct
Tremblay-en-France
Theatre Louis Aragon

Lavagem
19 - 22
Rome (IT)
Teatro di Roma - Teatro Nazionale & Romaeuropa Festival








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