Two dancers and one musician come together for an improvisation session. In this triad, body and sound intersect, connecting languages that intensify the encounter and create compositions that sometimes get closer and other times grow apart. It’s the desire to take back the body as a power through touch and contact.

Allyson Amaral: INSTAGRAM
Afonso Costa: SITE | INSTAGRAM
Romulo Alexis: SITE | INSTAGRAM | BANDCAMP

Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório present Anganga. Through voice and electronics, they show contemporary reinterpretations of vissungos collected by Aires da Mata Machado Filho in São João da Chapada, a city in Diamantina, State of Minas Gerais, in addition to congado chants from Minas Gerais and compositions by the duo as a result from their artistic process.

Cadu Tenório is a musician and composer active in the Brazilian experimental and electronic music scene since 2010, exploring different recording processes and timbre production from synthesizers, field recordings, tape loops, and processed instruments.

Juçara Marçal is a singer known for her work in groups such as Vésper Vocal, A Barca, and Metá Metá. She debuted her solo career with the album Encarnado (YB Music, 2014), winning awards from APCA and Multishow, among others, released Anganga (QTV Selo, 2015) with Cadu Tenório, and the album Delta Estácio Blues (QTV Selo, 2021), as her most recent work.

Cadu Tenório: SITE | BANDCAMP | YOUTUBE
Juçara Marçal: INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE

Charlotte Hug is a Swiss composer, interpreter, and visual artist internationally known for her solo performances and intermedia compositions. She has won many awards and joined residencies in London, Paris, Berlin, Johannesburg, and Shanghai, and was Artiste Étoile at the renowned Lucerna Festival.

SITE | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | SOUNDCLOUD 

Mariá Portugal works in the borders among improvisation, electronics, and song materials and composes soundtracks for cinema, theater, and dance. She’s active in Brazil and Germany, was improviser in residence at Moers Festival, in 2020, released the album EROSÃO, in 2021, and is a member of Quartabê.

Maria Beraldo is a composer, producer, singer, and clarinet and guitar player. She worked with Arrigo Barnabé, released her solo album CAVALA (2018), is a member of Quartabê, and composes soundtracks for cinema and theater, working in the music direction of works by Felipe Hirsch since 2019, and for dance, with the Balé da Cidade, the City Ballet of São Paulo, in 2024.

Together, they join the festival's second day as an improvisation duo.

Mariá Portugal: SITE | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY
Maria Beraldo: INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | BANDCAMP

Three technologically modified beings move around affecting and transforming each other in their interaction with the environment and the audience. Who are they? What are they? Lost aliens? Interdimensional castaways? An electronic rock band on a galactic tour? They are Toborochi.

In a performance act mixing technology, light, sound, environment, and the public, the trio makes its first appearances in Brazil.

Toborochi: SITE
Leticia Mazur: INSTAGRAM
Jorge Crowe: INSTAGRAM
Javier Bustos: INSTAGRAM

Dance improvisation between Allyson Amaral and Afonso Costa at the Municipal Historical Archives, resulting in a film directed by Iago Mati and Dolores that highlights Ramos de Azevedo's architecture and the building's heritage while connecting body, dance, and the environment and strengthening the importance of the historical recording of São Paulo's artistic scene by occupying a place dedicated to the preservation of memory itself.

Iago Mati is a filmmaker and Leviatã's editor and founder. He started his artistic path by drawing and doing graphic experimentations, later moving to photography and video, and using these languages as embryos for his multimedia work, such as installations and audiovisual albums, and collaborations with dancers and sound artists in his own film projects.

Dolores is a director of photography who translates over 10 years of experience in the audiovisual universe into an artistic perspective that highlights the richness of visual narratives. He works in organizations such as Médicos Sem Fronteiras and Unicef and with social impact production companies and finds in music and bodily expressions a channel to explore his poetic-documentary vision.

Allyson Amaral: INSTAGRAM
Afonso Costa: SITE | INSTAGRAM
Iago Mati: INSTAGRAM
Dolores: INSTAGRAM
Municipal Historical Archives: SITE | INSTAGRAM

Abissal is a sonic performance. A chant of deep water tongues reflecting the firmament. It’s a celebration of souls in which a dialog with processes of care and mass mourning is established. From kalunga, the endless abyss of the sea where black people were enchanted during human trafficking, in escapes and exiles, to the abyss of deep black sky populated by other bodies and movements that make us up from a diffuse ancestry, in agreement with the mystery.

Elton Panamby is a body artist (then known as a performer), unteacher, mother, black trans, writer of words and skins, and doctor of occult sciences.

Iago Mati is a filmmaker and Leviatã's editor and founder. He started his artistic path by drawing and doing graphic experimentations, later moving to photography and video, and using these languages as embryos for his multimedia work, such as installations and audiovisual albums, and collaborations with dancers and sound artists in his own film projects.

Elton Panamby: INSTAGRAM
Iago Mati: INSTAGRAM

Feeling the texture and materialities of a floor, of what was once upright and lustrous. Finding the objects that inhabit it and the sounds they manifest in relationship with a body. It's in a wracked architecture that glitters clinkings of things as they are.

Natasha Xavier is a visual and sound artist. She explores the relationship among space, body, and objects, delving into their materialities and sound possibilities in assemblages, installations, publications, and performances.

SITE | INSTAGRAM

Romulo Alexis is a musician, (de)composer, improviser, cultural producer, curator, educator, and video artist. He researches creative processes and has collaborated with over 300 artists internationally, participating in festivals in Brazil and Europe in projects related to cinema, dance, performance, theater, and multimedia productions.

Raiany Sinara is an experimental musician and music producer coming from Mato Grosso do Sul to São Paulo. She seeks to create dense, involving layers and potent beats using electronic drums and synthesizers.

Romulo Alexis: SITE | INSTAGRAM | BANDCAMP
Raiany Sinara: SITE | INSTAGRAM | BANDCAMP

Guizado e a Realeza has as its core pillars the composition, pulse, improvisation, and percussive rhythm, with all their diversity of meanings, not only musical but cultural and spiritual. Formed by Mamah Soares in the percussions, Marcelo Cabral in the acoustic bass, Paola Ribeiro in the vocals, and Guizado in the trumpets and electronic manipulations, the group creates a musical landscape to which they add layers of samples and electronic programmings.

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Diane Labrosse primarily works with electronic samplers in a personal approach in relation to sounds, exploring textures and timbres and creating an abstract and evocative music. Constantly present in various music scenes, she’s performed in several electronic and improvisation music festivals around the world.

Leticia Mazur is a teacher, director, dancer, actress, and performer, with an investigation focused on the body. She studied at P.A.R.T.S., Belgium, directed 20 works in performing arts, and took part in festivals in the American, European, and Asian continents.

Javier Bustos is an artist, composer, performer, and teacher from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His works explore the poetics of listening and sound production, having as starting points new media and precarious technologies, operating across experimental music, installation, and multimedia performing arts.

Diane Labrosse: YOUTUBE | SITE
Leticia Mazur: SITE | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE
Javier Bustos: SITE | INSTAGRAM | SPOTIFY

E nunca as minhas mãos estão vazias has its title taken from Maria Bethânia’s song reciting Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen: ‘Despite the ruins and death / Where every illusion always ended / The strength of my dreams is so strong / That from everything the exultation is reborn / And my hands are never empty.’ It’s in this reality amidst wars, devastation, and inequalities that the dance materializes.

The nine artists who make up the cast are Aline Bonamin, Allyson Amaral, Andrea Rosa Sá, Danielli Mendes, Felipe Stocco, Gabriel Fernandez Tolgyesi, Leandro Berton, Maurício Alves, and Paulo Carpino, who dive into their physical-affective repertoires to bring to the surface of contact pieces of expressions, gestures, and movements to be collectively devoured.

Cristian Duarte em Companhia is choreographer Cristian Duarte’s initiative to be, create, produce, disseminate, co-move the thought and excite the perception with dance, together with other artists who support and promote the transit between the various areas of knowledge, between languages, creating contexts for experimentation and for a research strategy in dance in the city of São Paulo. It’s an organism in residence at Casa do Povo since 2013, where he developed the residency LOTE and, currently, Z0NA.

Iago Mati is a filmmaker and Leviatã's editor and founder. He started his artistic path by drawing and doing graphic experimentations, later moving to photography and video, and using these languages as embryos for his multimedia work, such as installations and audiovisual albums, and collaborations with dancers and sound artists in his own film projects.

Cristian Duarte em Companhia: SITE | INSTAGRAM
Iago Mati: INSTAGRAM

Think of sound as a collage. Open up possibilities obstructed by the infinite complexity of working with sound in space.

The Sound Collage workshop, with Juliana R and Bruno Trchmnn, simultaneously proposes a new possible approach to sound and an accessible and inviting practice for those working with sound for the first time.

On the last day of INDEX, they present the video that resulted from the workshop, which started from visual collages with diverse images and photographs from AHM's archives to create sound landscapes as well.

Juliana R is a sound artist and musician. Her work is based on investigating ways of listening, speaking, and singing, and she uses live performance and collaborative practices as a creative process, also experimenting with formats in which she improvises with pre-determined elements and limitations.

Bruno Trchmnn lives in Campinas, where he works as a teacher. His research and theoretical production revolve around experimental music and its political intersections, and his practices are guided by improvisation, interval drone listening, and open and intuitive tuning systems.

Juliana R: INSTAGRAM | SOUNDCLOUD
Bruno Trchmnn: INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | BANDCAMP

Slow Gardering is a performance arts installation proposed by Edbrass Brasil as part of his artistic residency at Casa Líquida. As a site-specific work, the sound artist from Bahia explores the garden of Casa Líquida based on his research of sounds and visualities coming from plants and minerals. For this work, he’s joined by artists Marion Hesser and Thayna Oliveira and video artist Vicente Otávio.

Edbrass Brasil is a sound artist, curator, and researcher. He's been working in different creative fields for two decades, as a radio artist, performer, and soundtrack composer for performing arts. He currently coordinates the project “Amazonia Revisited,” a partnership between CMC (Salvador, Brazil) and IOIC (Zurich/Switzerland), which proposes a series of collaborations among sound artists from South America and Switzerland.

Thayná Oliveira is a music therapist, art therapist, and artist from São Paulo, studying at FASCS and SP Escola de Teatro. She approaches the intersection of symbols and sounds of popular and Afro-Diaspora cultures and uses the cello and singing as tools for sound vagrancy.

Marion Hesser is an artist. Her works incite resources from choreography, dramaturgy, sound art, performance, and text. From 2016 and 2021, she co-directed the dance platform cerco coreográfico. She has a Philosophy degree from Universidade de São Paulo, and currently investigates the night and the earth, their variations and movement, through the works "Gema" (2022) and "A tarde e a manhã e a noite" (2023).

Vicente Otávio is from the interior regions of Bahia and works mainly with the languages of photography and audiovisual. He experiments with image creation using unconventional analogical techniques. He's been living in São Paulo for five years and is a member of the performance act "Casa Líquida" as an artist in residency, contributing to the communication and recording of the creative and life processes that take place in the house. He has a degree in Architecture and Urbanism (UNIT-2017).

CASA LÍQUIDA: SITE | INSTAGRAM