How about the impossible?

2025

RELEASE

"How About the Impossible?" is the name of a song by singer-songwriter Itamar Assumpção. Based on musical and choreographic research, Jorge Garcia immersed himself in Itamar's sonic and theatrical provocation to develop his newest choreography for the Cisne Negro Dance Company. Jorge was born in Recife and arrived in São Paulo at the age of 23, where he was a dancer with the Cisne Negro Dance Company. In this year, 2025, which marks 30 years since his arrival, he developed this choreography, inspired by the city of São Paulo, as a creative tribute to a plural, vibrant metropolis rich in cultural diversity. By using the music of Itamar, an artist who broke musical boundaries, exploring rhythm, melody, and poetry with unique authenticity, Garcia sought to spread deep and complex emotions through his unique and questioning choreographic conception, which perfectly aligns with the essence of Cisne Negro Cia. de Dança, a São Paulo-based company with almost five decades of existence, and the musical atmosphere of Assumpção.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS – HOW ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBLE? (2025)


Music
Itamar Assumpção

Artistic Direction
Dany Bittencourt

Choreography
Jorge Garcia

Assistant director and rehearsal director
Patricia Alquezar

Soundtrack
Mauricio Badé

Mixing
 Bruno Buarque

Special Participation
Anelis Assumpção and Rubi Assumpção

Musical Curation
Anelis Assumpção

Scenography
Leo Ceolin

Lighting
Rossana Boccia

Costume
John Pepper

Special appearances on the soundtrack
Anelis Assumpção, Rubi Assumpção, Mazinho Lima and Minarê Aureliano

Duration: 34'06"’

Cast

Work created especially for the CISNE NEGRO DANCE COMPANY

Soundtrack – Itamar Assumpção

Itamar de Assumpção, known as Itamar Assumpção, was a Brazilian composer, singer, instrumentalist, actor, arranger, and music producer who stood out in the independent and alternative music scene of São Paulo in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the father of singers Anelis Assumpção and Serena Assumpção. Born in Tietê, and self-taught in São Paulo, Itamar Assumpção is considered one of the forerunners of Brazilian independent music and an icon of the so-called "Paulista Avant-garde." Alongside Arrigo Barnabé, Premê (Premeditando o Breque), Grupo Rumo, and Pracianos, he led the movement that, between 1979 and 1985, dominated the city of São Paulo and remains a reference point for Brazilian popular culture. Itamar produced a valuable body of work: more than 300 songs, 9 albums released during his lifetime, 3 posthumous albums, hundreds of poems, two children's books, and an immeasurable visual legacy. In November 2020, the Itamar Assumpção Museum was launched, the first virtual museum dedicated to a Black Brazilian artist. www.itamarassumpcao.com

Jorge Garcia

He began his studies in 1991 in Recife. In 1995 he joined the Cisne Negro Dance Company in São Paulo and in 1997 he went to the São Paulo City Ballet where, in addition to acting as a dancer, he also choreographed the pieces: Divinéia (2001), Desatino do Norte, Desatino do Sul (2003), RG (2006), TATO (2012) and Árvore do Esquecimento (2015). In 2005 he created the Jorge Garcia Dance Company, whose repertoire includes the pieces Cantinho de Nóis (2003), Histórias da 1/2 Noite (2006), Um Conto Idiota (2008), Cabeça de Orfeu, Nihil Obstat – solo Jorge Garcia (2009), Interlúdio (2009), O Mesmo Lugar de Sempre (2009), Área Reescrita (2010), 1st Suite for Solo Cello by JS Bach and Caixa de Vidro (2012), Imprimi Potest and Rotatória – solo Jorge Garcia (2013), Imprimatur and Copyleft (2014), Take a Deep Breath (2016) and Plano Sequência/ Take 2 (2017), Plano Sequência / Caixa Preta (2019), Vermelho Como Brasa ou Me Mostra Onde Dói – Solo Jorge Garcia (2022) and Estudos para Quimera Irupé Sarmiento and Jorge Garcia (2023). Since 2003, he has been developing work involving improvisation, video, and street performances in various cities in Brazil and abroad, alongside other artist-creators from the group GRUA – Gentlemen de Rua.