The KINTSUGI project was developed between November 2022 and December 2023, supported by the 32nd Edition of the Municipal Dance Promotion Program for the city of São Paulo — Municipal Department of Culture, and carried out the following actions:

• 01 New Creation
• 04 Jams with guest artists
• 04 Experiments with public opening
• 04 Choreographic laboratories with stipend for 15 people participants in each lab
• 01 Virtual publication

On Instagram @crisduarte_ you can follow the calls and other invitations for all actions.

The term Kintsugi has been widespread on the internet in recent years and, roughly speaking, it is a Japanese art in which a broken piece of pottery is repaired with a varnish containing gold. In this art, instead of hiding the patches of broken ceramics, the visibility of the cracks stands out, enhanced by gold, highlighting the imperfections of the trajectories, the stories covered by the ceramic piece, and generating singular meanings of the existence present there.

KINTSUGI adopts this name as a metaphor for the processes of Cristian Duarte's continuity in company, which previously created the "site specific" DESPEDANÇADA – a web page composed of countless and diverse pieces of virtual dances, pieces of choreography, fragments of procedures, between references, metaphors, memories and individual experiences shared and given new meaning by the encounter on screens.


A production by Cristian Duarte in company

Artistic Direction, Choreography and General Coordination
Cristian Duarte

Management and Coordination Assistance
Aline Bonamin and Gabriel Tolgyesi

Cast research, creation and dance
Aline Bonamin
Andrea Rosa Sá
Allyson Amaral
Danielli Mendes
Felipe Stocco
Gabriel Fernandez Tolgyesi
Leandro Berton
Maurício Alves
Paulo Carpino

Dramaturgical support
Julia Rocha

Musicians
Carla Boregas
Tom Monteiro

Light
André Boll/Santa Luz

Photography
Mayra Azzi

Video
Iago Matti

Visual identity
Renan Costa Lima/Tropical Studio
Application
Cristian Duarte

Executive production
Rafael Petri/MoviCena Productions
Bonobos Artistic Productions

Workspace and support
Casa do Povo

Cristian Duarte is a resident of Casa do Povo - a cultural center that revisits and reinvents the notions of culture, community and memory. Inhabited by a dozen groups, movements and collectives, some for decades and others more recently, Casa do Povo operates in the expanded field of culture. Its transdisciplinary, procedural and engaged programming understands art as a critical tool within a process of social transformation.

Rua Três Rios, 252
Bom Retiro – São Paulo
Metro: Tiradentes (blue line) and Luz (yellow line)

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