Parallel Universe Dance Company: research and creation in dance of UFRJ (2008-2014)

Director, choreographer, teacher, founder: Andrea Maciel

Classes: Choreography, Contemporary Dance, Muscular Dynamic, Ballet

Credits photos above:

"Equinox"
performance at Arpoador beach, as part of the creative process of the dance piece"Parallel Worlds", Rio de Janeiro 2010
photos, video: Cristiano Oliveira
dancers: Luisa Dutra, Mariana Yoshida, Malcolm Freitas, Rodrigo Rivera, Shirlene Paixão

"After the flood"
performance in public spaces in Nova Friburgo, a city in the region of the mountains of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in order to produce a videodance, about the effects of the flood that happened in 2011
photos: Gabriel Domingues
dancers: Isis Alves Coelho and Yasmin.

"The process is the scene: education"
performances in different public spaces of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in order to draw attention of the public and the authorities about the precarious situation of the public education institutions in Brazil, 2012
photos: Luisa Dutra, Taila Borges, Derick Abreu
dancers Jessica Lima, Julius Mack, Danilo Gomes, David Abreu, Lis de Paula, Maryana Nunes

Selected Projects at UFRJ: 

Shows and Performances
2012 Education
2011 Why don't you look at me?
2010/2011 Parallel worlds
2010 For a tiny little hole of a lock
2009 Inside ocean

Videodances
2012 Videodance: new technologies and interfaces between body, art and science
2012 Videodance: virtual x being present and some possible articulations between art, body and city
2011 Parallel worlds: connection between art, culture and science
2011 After the flood
2010 Equinox

Theory
2012 Dance as an instrument of being present
2012 Video usability in choreographic construction
2011 Parallel worlds: dance as a universe of possibilities
2011 Systemisation of technique in contemporary dance
2011 Methodology and creation in dance
2011 Cultural production in dance
2011 Scenery and costume in contemporary dance