TRAVESSIA (Crossing)

TRAVESSIA (Crossing)



The Real is neither in the exit nor in the arrival, he is disposed to us
in the middle of the crossing.
Guimarães Rosa

“Un spaces féerique où scans public et scan artistes célébrent scans vie.”

This was how Travessia was announced in Paris, where it was first presented in 1996, in the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Unesco and it was applauded by an audience of more than 1200 people.

Travessia is not just a show and neither theater. It is a tasty mixture that takes the public for a trip. It tells the history of the work, the fight and the party of the Brazilian people and it travels through the Brazilian music, in great company, like Villa Lobos, Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso, Elomar, Gonzaguinha...

Travessia is staged music, the sound formalized into images.

Sometimes the music is the dramatic text, sometimes just the rhythm is the driver and sometimes the scene still determines the music. In all those forms, almost always, the result is surprising.

In Travessia, o Ponto de Partida continues its language research in that the actor is the center of the staging. He sings, dances, interprets, lends his body to draw the lines of the show.

The stage is bare and the scene elements are as much signs for the reading of the show, as percussion instruments.

Travessia has an essentially international career, with seasons in Africa, in Latin America and in Europe.

It is a show that has the way and the smell of Brazil. That puts rhythm in our happiness, plays with our rhythms. That draws with our blackness and our latinity.

Our intention is to sing our roots and our dreams, our particularities and our contact points with every man.

Finally Travessia wants to be a ritual, a party.
A magic space where the public and the cast celebrate life!


Cast
Ana Alice Souza
Carolina Damasceno
Eloísa Mendes
Felipe Saleme
João Mello
Lido Loschi
Lourdes Araújo
Pablo Bertola
Regina Bertola
Soraia Moraes

Musicians
Gilvan de Oliveira - guitar
Ivan Corrêa – contra bass
Serginho Silva - percussion

Technich file
Conception and direction. Regina Bertola
Musical direction and arrangements. Gilvan de Oliveira
Vocal preparation. Babaya
Costumes. Tânia Werneck
Illumination. Jorginho de Carvalho
Technician and light operator. Rony Rodrigues
Production. Ponto de Partida
Production and graphic creation. Felipe Saleme
Executive production. Fátima Jorge
Executive secretary. Fernanda Fróes
Production direction. Fred Furtado

Program
Noite dos Mascarados Chico Buarque
Text Regina Bertola
Asa Branca Luís Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira
Cio da Terra Milton Nascimento and Chico Buarque
Arrumação Elomar
Bola de Meia, Bola de Gude Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant
Fé Cega, Faca Amolada Milton Nascimento and Ronaldo Bastos
Maracangalha Dorival Caymmi
Trenzinho do Caipira Villa Lobos
Maria, Maria Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant
Text Adélia Prado
Argonautas Caetano Veloso
Tanto Mar Chico Buarque
Arrastão Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes
Garota de Ipanema Vinícius de Moraes
Desafinado Tom Jobim and Newton Mendonça
Cantiga de Caicó (folkloric theme)
Meu Amor Chico Buarque
Cajuína Caetano Veloso
Águas de Março Tom Jobim
Disparada (vignette) Geraldo Vandré and Théo de Barros
Procissão Gilberto Gil
Galope Gonzaguinha
Baião Luis Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira
Text Carlos Drummond de Andrade