The soundtrack, specially created by one of the leading figures of Brazilian popular music, Gilberto Gil, reached Paulo and Rodrigo Pederneiras in 2019. And it received its first stage adaptation – Gil. Three years later – with the Covid-19 pandemic in the middle – the music returned to the stage in a new incarnation, in the spirit of renewing, rebuilding, reviewing, reviving. Remaking. “It’s a new show,” says the company’s artistic director, Paulo Pederneiras. The name gained an epithet: Gil Remaking. Just like Gilberto Gil’s music, which rises in the reinterpretation of famous themes by the Bahian composer, the ballet was completely rebuilt.

The set design relies on a background image in millimetric motion. "They are zoomed-in images of sunflowers that slowly come back to life," says Paulo Pederneiras. Dressed in off-white linen – girls in shirts over two-piece sweaters, boys in casual trousers and shirts – the dancers move under "white and simple" lighting, says Paulo. The music features phrases and themes from Gilberto Gil's songs – reworked, but perfectly recognizable in their variations, over ancestral drums, distortions of electronic equipment, afoxé, modinha, berimbau, and a jazzy wind section.