NUMBERS:

LÓVE – Fernanda Paixão (RJ)

LÓVE is a number of love. Clowness Valquíria is getting ready for a special date and thinks of everything she needs for the day – objects and perfume transform the place where she waits for the love of her life. Freely inspired by the book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes.

Direction: Karla Concá
Performance: Fernanda Paixão

Contact: fpamoreira@gmail.com

O Cotidiano (Day-to-Day) – Valeria Berreta (Argentina)

O Cotidiano is the ticket to visit the place of a woman who everyday dives into her cruel reality: being alone, raising her children away from her country. It is a tragicomic piece about the everyday life of a housewife and the hopes and wishes of a woman who wants to have a family. In the simple daily routine, in which everything is repetitive, there is a beam of hope that the tragic destiny of loneliness can change. Clowness Benedita portraits the reality of thousands of women who fight to survive and raise their children on their own.

Performance: Valeria Berretta
Direction: João Carlos Artigos Musical Direction:Valeria Berretta

Contact: guerrerocristal12@hotmail.com

Tragédia – Aline Moreno (São Paulo)

Donatella is a pregnant clowness who is about to give birth and decides to run away from hospital. As a runaway, she humorously and tragically tells us about her experience with our present healthcare system.

Contact: li_teatro@yahoo.com.br

De repente, Grávida?! (Suddenly Pregnant?!) – Aline Oliveira (RJ)

Pregnancy is a very delicate period, full of surprises for both women and men. However, women are a little more sensitive to it. If physical transformations and changes of humor are true to all women, imagine what happens to a clowness when she finds out that she is Suddenly Pregnant?! From the clowness’ point of view, this number playfully approaches the feelings and ideas that take place when a woman understands she is pregnant and how she realizes the strangeness of suddenly being responsible for a new being.

Creation and Script: Aline de Oliveira
Direction: Fernando Lopes Lima
Performance: Palhaça Olivia – Aline de Oliveira

Contact: alinepoeta@gmail.com

Veraz Apetite (Voracious Appetite) – Daniela Piveta (SP/Rio)

In a good-humored and grotesque way, the feelings of pleasure, anxiety and lack are presented in this scene. It reveals how eating can be an intimate act, that reveals one’s personality.

Clowness: Daniela Piveta
Direction: Karla Concá

Contact: danipiveta@hotmail.com

Nayana Carvalho

An extremely fussy clowness, who is afraid of everything, gets lost in the woods. There, she has to face conflicting situations: a dinosaur, an abyss, a pool and the worst of all, a dirty spot on her clothes.

Clowness: Nayana Carvalho
Direction: Flávia Lopes

Contact: Naycarvalho@gmail.com

Duration: 90 minutes
Age rating: 14

Aterro do Flamengo, Ao lado do Teatro Municipal Carlos Werneck, altura do numero 300 da Praia do Flamengo

MC: Manuela Castelo Branco – Clowness Matusquela – Brasília

11:00 Opening: Ana Luisa Cardoso – Margarita e Eu (Margarita and I) – RJ

After more than 10 years of solo performances in Brazil, Margarita celebrates her 25 birthday by performing a number with a partner, a male partner (!) who’s known all over the world!
The starting point of this number comes from the clowness’ need to expand her abilities. This may be the reason that led Russell Crowe to accept participating in the creation and performance of “Margarita and I”.
In order to meet the needs of a guest who has such a peculiar personality and who doesn’t speak our language, it was a must to have a “tamer” to intervene.

Creation and production: Ana Luisa Cardoso
Performance: Clowness Margarita and Russell Dengo Crowe (Ana Luísa Cardoso’s puppy)
Instructor: Eugenio Rosales
Luxurious Assistance: Alice Viveiros de Castro
Touch of genius and direction: Sergio Machado
Duration: 10 minutes
Age rating: no restrictions

11:40 Família Cherem (Itaguaí/RJ)

Clown Cherem opens the show trying to get the audience to participate in his jokes and tricks. Then he introduces Carequita, who joins him in his task. Clowness Repita comes in to save the show because Carequita cannot do anything right.

Clownesses:
Carequita – Slanny Cherem
Repita – Sluchem Cherem
Cherem: Limachen Cherem
Duration: 20 minutes
Age rating: no restrictions

Contact: tapume@uol.com.br

12:15 Irmãos Brothers (RJ)

An Irmãos Brothers show is a rock-and-roll circus show. This is the best definition for this amazing collage of scenes. A pop and modern circus based on itinerant circus traditions. A show of varieties in a rich and swift flow of sketches selected from several numbers of the group’s repertoire. They are light and funny, with moments of refined wit and a quick and direct rapport with the audience.

Cast: Irmãos Brothers – Aylla Casarin and Nehemias Rezende
Duration: 40 minutes

Contact: irmaosbrothers@irmaosbrother.com.br

13:30 Uma Surpresa para Benedita (A Surprise for Benedita) – Grupo Trampulim – Adriana Morales and Tiago Mafra (BH)

Clown Sabonete (Soap) and Clowness Benedita Jacarandá are good companions, and, whenever they meet, something unusual happens. In this show, Sabonete decides to prepare a surprise dinner party for Benedita, but he needs Benedita herself to help him out. By using a human and simple everyday theme, these two artists create absurd and unpredictable situations that seem to head to an unhappy end. The surprise party has unexpected results, in which love, peace and laughter prevail, leading them to the best situation. Or not? We don’t know if the food tastes good, but everything around it is delicious!

Creation: Adriana Morales and Tiago Mafra
Cast: Tiago Mafra and Adriana Morales
Sound effects: Marcos Nascimento
Direction: Rogério Sette Câmara
Assistant director: Ana Virgínia Guimarães e Sérgio Penna
Costumes: Tana Guimarães, Tiago Mafra and Adriana Morales
Setting: Tana Guimarães
Makeup: Adriana Morales and Tiago Mafra
Light: Tiago Mafra
Sound track: Adriana Morales and Tiago Mafra
Duration: 60 minutes
Age rating: no restrictions

Contact: producao@trampulim.com.br

A Garota da Capa is a visual comedy about a lonely woman in her apartment, living her life through magazine stories and pictures. It is both sad and funny the story that goes on in the secret world of her dreams and wishes, her past memories and hopes for the future: a woman surrounded by famous friends, loved by dozens of men, having celebrities for dinner and going on trips to exotic places – a woman who wants to be young forever, a woman…

Performance: Andréa Padilha
Direction: John Mowat
Translation: Adriana Padilha
Creation: Andréa Padilha and John Mowat
Light design: John Mowat
Musical adaptation: Nelson Padilha (keyboard and accordion) and Anderson Sauerbier (saxophone)
Costumes: John Mowat and Carlos Eduardo Silva
Setting: John Mowat
Age rating: 14
Duration: 45 minutes

Contact: andreartepadilha@hotmail.com

Pachaska is a housewife who leads a very regular life, until one day a ray revolves her insides. She can hear her uterus, and it tells her that she should go home, so rescuing a threatened species from extinction, that of “wild women”. She doesn’t know how to do it, but accepts the challenge. She awkwardly starts her first steps, performs rituals and practices that teach her to become more powerful, as in an initiation rite. Conflicts emerge. Her lack of knowledge and her contradictions make her feel lost, but she asks questions while she looks at herself in the mirror and dives deeply into emotional states in which she has to fight all her inside monsters. She needs to recover her feminine essence and goes on a trip that will take her away from home, that will make her lead her own life and discover new worlds in the twilight of fantasy and reality.

Creation and performance: Andrea Martínez
Direction: Fernando Paz
Dramaturg: Virginia Caputi
Coaching: Veronica San Vicente
Musical Consultant: Ludmila Rapoport
Costume: Claudia Acosta
Art director and Setting: Marcelo Patiño – Irene Willat
Light: Irene Willat
Graphic Design: Carolina Díaz, www.gendsieno.com
Photos: Magdalena Patiño Roquero
Production: Andrea Martínez
Age rating: 14
Duration: 50 minutes

Contact: elartedeserpayaso@gmail.com

Inadequacy and ridiculous speech.
Because of a free dance experience with a Down syndrome girl, ?Síndrome de Clown? was created. Now it brings a bunch o f clownesses, who will freely dance the streets of Copacabana, directed by choreographer and director Sueli Guerra.

Along with the international tendency to do away with imposing ‘perfection’ patterns established by a model of society extremely based on a masculine perspective that limits freedom and independence of genres, the exhibit Palhaças Peladas intends to add up to this cultural revolution, which, this time, through virtual communication, reaches a historical expansion that is as gigantic as necessary. In order to be a clowness, one needs to undress and take social, aesthetical and individual stereotypes off. Our bodies are our working tools, which, naked and through humor, paints in bright colors the free possibility to be what one wants to be or simply to enjoy what he has. Palhaças Peladas is, above all, a manifesto that humorously celebrates difference in order to color a freer world. Welcome to our place!

Lecture – No Photoshop – Starting from the principle that being a clown is to express one’s beliefs and inability to cope with society, we wonder about what we, clownesses, want to say when we choose this profession. Woman, your “imperfections” belong to you and that is why they make you unique.

Greta represents us, women, today, with our past values in search of human connections, with our romanticism that leads us to dream with something bigger than the earthly everyday reality and inspires us to believe in other people and in ourselves. Greta is also the fragility of our emotions and the vulnerability brought up by the fears that lead us nowadays. Greta lives the duality of madness and sanity, tenderness and repulsion, of hope and despair. GRETA is all of us. All of us are GRETA!
“Perhaps, perhaps, quizás…” is a performance in which a clowness has the illusion of finding ‘the perfect man’ and waits for him, while she experiences the loneliness that her illusion implies, since she herself is so imperfect. While the prison in time and the lack of hope are imminent, our character, Greta, once a week, rehearses for the big day, her wedding day. “Will I get lucky tonight? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps…”.

Clowness Greta Merengue: Gabriela Munõz
Original Idea and Direction: Gabriela Muñoz
Costume: Valentina Muñoz
Art Director: Gabriela Muñoz and Valentina Muñoz
Original Music: Ernesto Paredano
Graphic Design: Marion Sosa
Photos: Marion Sosa and Pepe Castillo
Video: Marion Sosa
Age rating: 14
Duration: 60 minutes

Contact: gaby@clownmein.com