Question and Answer / THE TIME OUT (…) What are your personal choreographic concerns? My work involves the survival of the company. I know that when people watch my work and the company, we give off the feeling of being comfortable as a [business] structure, but is not true. My house is my office now and a safe place for the dancers. We are looking forward: to keep working every day with a salary or not; here, even with the sun and Copacabana, life is unglamorous. We have a sense of humor, but we are running against time. We want to get a cultural center, a theater and our own rehearsal room and a sponsor that keeps us alive for more than six months. Along the way, Ive met important people who have helped a lot: Monica Lima is a Ph.D. in African and Brazilian history who made me think in a different way and taught me how to stay alert to signs of racism and prejudice. Rodrigo Marçal and Felipe Storino gave me soundtracks so full of flavor and daring. My amazing lighting designer Renato Machado. We have a manager for the first time, Ivan Cavalcanti. I have this company being moved by my madness and courage. I have to have weekly projects. I have to invent situations, partnerships and possibilities that make me see the short- and medium-term sustenance of the company every day. But I do think about having the repertoire of the company deal with recognition of the civilizing values of African origin, encouraging reflection on them in Brazilian culture in all its diversity and the territories of origin for young dancers. The performances of the company seek to translate these identities and diversities with a Carioca—Rio de Janeiro—Brazilian and African-descent accent, but at the same time be translatable to the world by placing it in the affirmative of contemporary dance. In 2012, I got an award to create a new work, and it was the first time in eight years of the company that I had six months to think, create, develop and put a work onstage with research. It was pure magic. And it is the reason that I gave it the name EU DANÇO: I dance.
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