TANZLANDSCHAFT BRASIL presents:

Mauricio Motta

is a dancer, teacher and choreographer graduated in philosophy from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil.

He started his carrier as a classical dancer in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon. In 1985 he went to Germany where he worked as dancer, teacher and choreographer in different theatres and companies such as Würzburg, Tanztheater Darmstadt and Freies Tanztheater Frankfurt.

In 1996 he formed the [sí-la-bAs] c. dança, a project focused in the research of body memory as a creative universe. In the UFRN he was artistic director of the Gaya Dança Contemporânea, a dance research project and was co-director of the “Tônus - Cia. de artes cênicas da UFRN” where Mauricio started to develop a pedagogic research in dance theatre as a methodology system to work with actors and non-dancers.

For TANZLANDSCHAFT BRASIL Mauricio presents:

SENTE-SE (Sit back)

Based on the play “The chairs”, by Ionesco, the piece shows an old couple that lived isolated in an island. They organized a big conference, breaking the daily monotony of their existence, to expose the results of his reflections, built over a lifetime that, as they believed, will change the world.

Loneliness, isolation and oblivion are the major issues in this piece that try to speak about the process of forgetting.