Eu não dançarei sem você - Creative Process

Oops! Let me introduce myself first.

Hi, I’m Tais. You don’t see me, but I’m a white woman, I have brown hair, I wear a fringe and I have very thick eyebrows.

I want to tell you a story. A five-person story that still doesn’t have an end.

It started back in 2018, when Rê, a very witty young woman with short brown hair and large cheeks, had the idea of ​​giving a presentation together with Rô, a young, creative, curious, curly-haired man, who has a big smile.

But this presentation was a fun way to perform. It was a danced invention or an invented dance, in which everyone could become an artist and be amazed, without having to rehearse. Where tap dancing was understood by everyone, even by those who couldn’t hear it.

That’s how it all started: playing, repeating, transforming, and learning Libras, the Brazilian sign language.

This is Rô dancing in the shadows of the stage. Grinning, he taps his right foot once, his left foot three times, and snaps his fingers close to his face.

The third person is me! Yes, I’m part of that story too.

I arrived very excited about working with a company that essentially uses tap dancing to express themselves and takes this language far beyond dance.

Just the tap dance! Language that I practiced for years and years of my life and that was my first contact with music that is made with the body.

But can you make music with your body? Of course! Body music is a toy that anyone can take wherever they want. It is also a way of communicating, getting to know one another and getting to know each other. Unexpected, curious, or even funny things can happen when we play the body sounds together.

As in this part of the show, with Rê and Rô tap dancing side by side, under two spotlights.

Remember I said at the beginning that this is a never-ending story?

So, we can’t exactly predict the future, but one of our plans is to include a feature called audio description. There are many people who still don’t know this feature. It serves for non-seers to build an experience in their imagination. And for those who can see, this language comes as another way to feel the moment.

Oh, I almost forgot!

Our other plan is to make this play a spectacle for children of all ages: from zero to a hundred years old.

Let it be plural, thoughtful, dancing and fun.

In this scene, Rê dances interacting with the audience. She wears short, loose jumpsuit, in pink with green and yellow details. She taps her feet, raises her arms, and claps her hands high.

She spins tap dancing and claps her hands on her chest. He spins around again and claps his hands on his thighs.

At this point you might be wondering who the other two people are.

Well, the fourth person is Ana. A naughty girl who manages to be calm and agitated at the same time. With her cute and frantic way, she will arrive telling everyone everything that is happening through the audio description.

And the fifth person? The fifth person is you!

You are the most important part of this story.

A character that can change or even create new stories! The only rule is to play!

Play with gestures, touches, movements, silences and sounds and thus learn different ways to communicate.

In the shed, Rê and Rô battle head-to-head. They smile. On stage, the two tap and dance in sync. They twirl. They say thanks in Libras and wave their hands aloft.

I’m sure the five of us will come out different from this experience.

And you know what else? This story has no end, but one thing I’m sure of:

I won’t dance without you.