Historic serie 19 | Suíte Branca

SUITE BRANCA
[2015]
choreography: Cassi Abranches
music: Samuel Rosa
set design: Paulo Pederneiras
costume design: Freusa Zechmeister
lighting: Paulo Pederneiras and Gabriel Pederneiras

Dressed in white from the start of the ballet to the finish, moving across the linoleum – which is also white – and against the backdrop panel that gradually reveals the peaks and valleys of a structure that resembles a giant glacier, the Grupo Corpo dancers drift through the intriguing web of themes composed by Samuel Rosa for the White Suite score.
Idealized as the old Roman blank slates or a blank page, on which a new story begins to be written, White Suite marks the first collaboration between the young choreographer from São Paulo, Cassi Abranches, and the dance company from Minas Gerais. Among undulating arms and hips, pendular movements, suspensions, and considerable floorwork, the score suggests an interaction with the law of gravity, where it is possible to see the distinctive traits of Grupo Corpo that for so long have inhabited our imagination, and at the same time, to glimpse the strength of an unequivocal otherness.