Online Conversations: Lia Rodrigues

ONLINE CONVERSATIONS

Conversations with different guests about Body, Science, Thought, Community, Sustainability, Imagination, in relation to Covid-19, moderated by Cláudia Galhós, Vítor Belanciano and the Generator team. The conversations are live on the YouTube channel of BoCA Bienal. Every Wednesday and Friday until at least the 30th of June.

WEEK 6

27 MAY, 7pm (West): Lia Rodrigues (choreographer)
Moderator: Vítor Belanciano

Lia Rodrigues was born in 1956 in São Paulo where she graduated in classical ballet and studied history at the University of São Paulo. After participating in the contemporary dance movement in São Paulo in the 1970s, he joined Compagnie Maguy Marin / France between 1980 and 1982 where he participated in the creation of ‘May b.’. Back in Brazil he founded Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças in 1990, in Rio de Janeiro. There are 30 years of continuous work with creation and pedagogy. Creator and artistic director for 14 years of the Panorama de Dança festival. Since 2004, he has been developing artistic and educational projects in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro in partnership with Redes da Maré. From this partnership, the Maré Arts Center was born in 2009, a space for the creation, training and dissemination of arts and in 2012, the Free School of Dance of the Tide.