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Marcela Levi & Lucía Russo | Improvável Produções

Choreographers Marcela Levi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Lucía Russo (Patagonia, Argentina) founded their training, research and creative platform, Improvável Produções, in Río de Janeiro in 2010. Levi and Russo take a polyphonic approach to their work, which interlinks a variety of inventive positions in a process that encourages divergent lines and internal differences as a constructive critical force and not as self-exclusive polarities. Improvável’s work strives for an experimental aesthetic based on an extraordinary confrontation with the impasses of Brazilian society in which there exists a determined effort to, rather than succumb, transform the difficulties and tensions into the subject of an artistic production.

Collage: Ícaro Gaya
Photo Levi & Russo: Bea Borgers

Residency project

The 2020 pandemic forced dancers and performing artists into the world of screens, which, in turn, inspired the creation of the dance film corto, corto, largo y a veces corto, largo, corto. When the restrictions ended, they returned to the stage . Fuera de cuadro is a proposal about the return to co-presence. Coming out of the screen, being ‘out of frame’. And as such, it took its inspiration from the event that generated the early cinema film Baños en el mar. A silent, black and white version of the film corto, corto, largo y a veces corto, largo, corto will be projected at the back of the stage and, as it runs, 15 performers and musicians will appear in person to replicate and mirror the actions shown on film, thereby coming out of the screen.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2025 · with Mercat de les Flors · Fuera de cuadro
  • 2022 · open call ·  Prácticas de exceso y el rigor de la explosión
  • 2016 · collaboration with Sâlmon Festival< · M0rdedores

Residencies videos