Comedy theater bursts into LAC with Giuseppe Giacobazzi which will be on stage at Congress Palace with his new show The pedestrian. Lights, shadows and colors of any life, which talks about the comparison between our life and that lived on a chessboard. In a society where everyone dreams of being a prized piece, the charm of normality shines. An hour and a half of show, the time for a game and a comic but at the same time internal monologue, which leaves the spectator glued and attentive in discovering the next move. In The pedestrian we see a Giacobazzi who is increasingly distant from old-style cabaret and increasingly closer to the narrative of comic theatre, in a path where laughter is never abandoned, present as in every other show, but which also becomes a tool for reflection.

An eagerly awaited return is that of The Legnanese in a show that blends rhythm and laughter, tradition and innovation. The new story of the Colombo Family arises from the union between the scents of the traditional courtyard and the inspirations drawn from the enormously successful television series Mare Fuori: The Legnanesi are grappling with a very timely commandment, together with the sumptuous, colorful and engaging paintings of the magazine to the Italian girl, to the other characters in the courtyard and to the sparkling boys.

Nowadays, growing up in a traditional family of healthy and authentic principles is a great fortune: Mabilia knows this well and, aware of this privilege, takes part in a charity competition, winning the "temporary adoption" of a problematic boy, but with an incredibly strong character. overwhelming. And this is precisely how Carmine becomes part of the Colombo Family, overwhelming everyone... Teresa and Giovanni's task is to reintegrate the boy into society by providing him with the solid foundations and essential moral principles to live honestly, while Mabilia's is to dress the role as "big sister". But we know that habits (even unhealthy ones, unfortunately!) die hard and, due to a stunt committed by Carmine, the three Colombos will find themselves catapulted into a courtroom to "exonerate" themselves for something they didn't have committed, especially Giovanni who, to Teresa's great happiness, will even risk prison. But when everything seems to degenerate with no way out, the situation transforms, leading spectators to reflect on the 7th commandment.

For dance, the São Paulo City Ballet, the most important company of the Brazilian metropolis, acclaimed both by critics and the public of all the great theaters in which it has performed, arrives at the LAC with an extraordinary program composed of the work of three very different choreographers. The evening opens with the Spanish Cayetano Soto, who describes his piece – created to the music of Ezio Bosso – with these words: «adastra for me it is a philosophy of life, a point of reflection, a path to reach the star that each of us carries within us, that is, the energy we need to reach our lucky star. The journey is a personal struggle to become what one has always dreamed of as a chimera: reaching the stars is not possible in reality."

The second work, signed by the Brazilian Clébio Oliveira, starts from a series of questions: what would be the ideal of a perfect world? What would a ritualized life be like? Is a world possible where we can celebrate life through dance and music? How to dance the symbols of life in a possible post-pandemic world? Trance it is an endless party, a utopia seen through the metaphor of an invented fairy tale. A futuristic ritual of collective ecstasy; a sensorial immersion closer to the world of the senses than to that of reason.

The program ends with Breath (breath), choreography in which Rafaela Sahyoun focuses on the urgency of literally creating pulsations: breathing is contagious, negotiation of desires, assimilation; an interpersonal event that brings you closer and further away, reverberates, transforms, falters, decays and regenerates. Breath evokes the eroticism of being alive.

As part of Steps, the dance festival of Migros Culture Percentage, the Canadian contemporary dance-theatre company Kidd Pivot presents his new work, Assembly Hall, created by choreographer Crystal Pite and actor Jonathon Young: a hybrid between dance and theater that embodies all the humor and creative ingenuity that distinguish the ensemble. Kidd Pivot's artistic signature is characterized by its fascinating stories and the role played by language as a vitalizing force.

Also within the framework of Steps, the Swiss choreographer Yasmine Hugonnet explores, with a hint of mischief, the mysterious art of ventriloquism, translating his research into an impressive dancing cabaret. On stage, in addition to the voice and movement of the four dancers, the many female voices who, for centuries and centuries, have not been able to tell their story.

The art of ventriloquism has always fascinated. In the past it was thought that people capable of mastering this mysterious technique were possessed, witches and sorcerers. In her latest work, Yasmine Hugonnet explores the history of this art and translates the fruit of her extensive research into an extraordinary dancing cabaret in which the voice, singing and movement of the four performers on stage intertwine, including Ruth Childs – dancer and Anglo-American performer, Swiss by adoption – and Hugonnet herself. Together they form a choir, a superposition of multiple languages ​​which, in a playful way, gives life to experimentation: what happens when you make a person move and they start speaking with a voice that is not theirs? And what happens when a hand starts conversing or when a gesture resonates, like an echo, from one body to another?

Just like in Russian matryoshka dolls, the voice hides in the deepest part of the body and tells a (foreign) story, the story of another body and, in particular, that of the female body. Starting from this central theme, the Swiss choreographer not only investigates a fascinating artistic form, but she also gives a voice to those who, for many centuries, have not been able to speak and tell their story.

All the shows not to be missed at LAC

DANCE

24 March at 18.00

LAC, Theater Hall

São Paulo City Ballet

Adastra / Transe / Fôlego   THEATRE

9 April, 20.30 hours

Congress Palace

Giuseppe Giacobazzi

The pedestrian. Light, shadows and colors of any life

DANCE / STEPS

28 April, 18.00 hours

LAC, Theater Hall

Steps: Kidd Pivot 

Assembly Hall

THEATRE

From April 30th to May 2nd, 20.30pm

LAC, Theater Hall

The Legnanese
7th…Do not steal 

PERFORMANCE / DANCE / STEPS

14 May at 20.30

LAC, Stage Theater Hall

Steps: Arts Mouvementés / Yasmine Hugonnet 

Les Porte-Voix – Cabaret Ventriloque