Soul on Fire

1989

TECHNICAL DATA

Choreography
Ana Mondini

Conception and Direction
José Possi Neto

Soundtrack (Collage and composition)
Gil Reys

Costumes
João Santaella Júnior

Scenography
Marco Antonio Lima

Origami
Eduardo Amos

Light Design
Hiram Ravache and José Possi Neto

Visual Programming and Makeup
Fábio Namatame


Synopsis
“To make bodies vibrate, to draw oneself, to seek forms and meanings. I seek within myself to explain my dance. Or rather, to explain myself through dance. Dancing for me was never the result of learning, nor even a consequence of technical mastery. It was a silent and camouflaged passion in childhood. Through a friend, I discovered a text that seemed to speak precisely of the work we were finishing composing: “From the encounter with his shadow, man begins to be born from the darkness of the unconscious to confront his instinctive life in its octonic and spiritual form.” “I recognized in these words an attempt to rationally explain what we were discovering with Soul on Fire” (José Possi Neto).

Year of debut
1989

TECHNICAL DATA

Conception and Direction
José Possi Neto

Soundtrack (Collage and composition)
Gil Reys

Costumes
João Santaella Júnior

Scenography
Marco Antonio Lima

Origami
Eduardo Amos

Light Design
Hiram Ravache and José Possi Neto

Visual Programming and Makeup
Fábio Namatame

Year
1989

Ana Mondini - Alma Em Fogo - Cisne Negro Cia de Dança

Ana Mondini

The Brazilian dancer and choreographer Ana Maria Piazza Pfitscher da Silva, 47, from Porto Alegre, is the new director of the Ballet Company of the Staatstheater Kassel, the opera house of Documenta, in Germany. Despite being virtually unknown on the German scene, she was chosen from among 40 selected competitors, dancers from various nations. Besides being the first woman and foreigner in this role after many years, she is also the first Brazilian director of the company. Married and mother of three children (ages 10, 14, and 20), with a career of about 30 years entirely based in São Paulo and despite holding several dance awards in Brazil, her jump to Europe took place only a few years ago. She first came to work in Germany in 1996, invited by Brazilian choreographer Ismael Ivo to be his assistant director at the then-new dance company of the Deutsches National Theater in the eastern German city of Weimar, which was closed for financial reasons last year.