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New Creation
Recording: 2022-08-27 , Haus der Berliner Festspiele (Video © Bickmann & Kolde GbR)

Bruno Beltrão, Grupo de Rua

New Creation

Tanz im August | Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Production Details / Press Releases

High jumps, headspins, somersaults, fast kicks and whirling turns: with his 10-person crew Grupo de Rua, Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão combines breaking, hip hop and contemporary dance. With a keen eye for composition, Beltrão addresses the turbulent political status of Brazil. In “New Creation” he brings his country’s urgent conflict and violent social contradictions to the stage through an athletic vocabulary of the urban, imbued with explosive expression and freewheeling virtuosity.

Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão has since 1996 been devising performances that combine street dance, breakdance and hip hop with contemporary dance. At the same time highly physical and analytical, his influential choreographies question the established, masculine movement structures and stereotypes of hip hop. His company Grupo de Rua has been touring internationally since 2002, the same year the group was first invited to Tanz im August. Beltrão was awarded New York’s prestigious Bessie award for “H3” (2010) and for his recent production “Inoah” (2020).

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TFB Nr. 1680

Cast & Credits

Artistic direction: Bruno Beltrão
Artistic direction assistance: Gilson Cruz
With: Wallyson Amorim, Camila Dias, Renann Fontoura, Eduardo Hermanson, Alci Junior, Silvia Kamyla, Ronielson Araújo ‘Kapu’, Leonardo Laureano, Leandro Rodrigues, Antonio Carlos Silva
Lighting design: Renato Machado
Costume design: Marcelo Sommer
Music: Lucas Marcier / ARPX Elektrik Sineir
Stage: Anderson Dias

Production: Grupo de Rua in cooperation with Something Great
Co-production: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Festival d’Automne in Paris & Centquatre, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Wiener Festwochen, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Sadler’s Wells, Kampnagel, Onassis STEGI, Culturgest / Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Romaeuropa, Charleroi Danse, Le Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg, Cité Musicale- Metz
Distribution: Something Great
Commissioned by: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses,
funded by: The federal states and the federal government commissioner for culture and the media.
Supported by: Goethe Institut

Tanz im August as a guest at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Tanz im August 2022
Artistic Director: Virve Sutinen
Executive Producer Festival: Stefan Nagel
Curator & Producer: Andrea Niederbuchner
Producer & Assistant to Artistic Director: Alina Scheyrer-Lauer
Producer: Ekaterina Voronova
Production Assistant: Johanna Herrschmann
Production Associates: Vivien Hohnholz, John Hoobyar, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Raquel Moreira, Lilli Ruopp, Tammo Walter
Technical Director Festival: Ingo Ruggenthaler
Tanz im August is a festival by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.

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Video Documentation

The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):

University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)

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