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Featured: The Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

The Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças was founded in 1990, by the choreographer Lia Rodrigues, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company has built a solid reputation and has been invited to perform its repertoire in important festivals and dance institutions around Brasil and foreign countries. Besides its artistic productions the company gives classes, conferences and workshops toward beginners and professional dancers.

In Brasil, the performances are always for free or have low tickets prices. Some of the actions taken by the company are to offer spaces for debate, make other individuals aware of questions relating to contemporary art, in addition to investing in the formation of new audiences. The Company is based, since 2003, in the favela of Maré ( one of the biggest favelas in Rio de Janeiro ) where the company develops an artistic and educational project.

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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