CAMINOS INVISIBLES...LA PARTIDA
CAMINOS INVISIBLES...LA PARTIDA
Immigration, fashion and sustainability are some of the matters of this play directed and performed by the multi-artist Carina Casuscelli.
The problem of large urban areas, with focus on irregular migrants versus slave labor and subhuman conditions, remain consistent as output of survival and artifice of the fashion industry.
The play portrays the story of South American immigrants, especially the Andean Peoples, who leave their countries in search of better living conditions and come to the great urban areas. This merges the situations of illegality with the struggle for survival. Ironically, the fashion market that mobilizes social problems satirizes the mass market, meanwhile is driven by slave labor of immigrants.
Caminos Invisibles is configured as an effort to break with social stereotypes, revealing the richness and the beauty of a culture of 15,000 years. At the same time, the play marks a new moment in the work of research, investing in a playwriting, deconstructing some style present in earlier work, without giving up the performance aspect, one of the main features of the Companhia Nova de Teatro.
In a contemporary vision and emerging migratory processes, “Caminos Invisibles ... La Partida”, merges Andean folk music, song, dance, texts in Quechua and Aymara, documental theatre and videos.
The meeting of roots, ancestries and identities are faced with the daily life of the metropolis in surreal, arid tragicomic scenes, most of the times.
Faith, strength, perseverance and all the wealth of the Andean culture comes to the fore, merging with the urban scene of greater São Paulo in the form of shamanic ritual. The typical outfit rich in detail is one of the highlights of the play and is part of the Director’s research work on Andean culture in Brazil in more than five years.
CREDITS
Direction and Dramaturgy – Carina Casuscelli. Provocations and Lighting – Lenerson Polonini. Cast – Carina Casuscelli, Cléo Moraes, Cacá Santini, Giuliano Pallos, Juan Cusicanki, Rosa Freitas, Ricardo Gelli, Camila dos Anjos, Claudia Wer, Roselaine Araújo, Mauro Grillo e Adriana Gaeta. Andean Team – Richard Rivera, Freddy Wara, Oscar Condori, Beatriz Morales, Brendol Morales, Brayan Jorge,
Janete Aline, Daniel Mamani, Victor Koll e Cesar Chui, Inti Roman, Veronica Yujra, Michelle Keli, Chayña Mendoza, Carmelita
Quispe, Lis Duran, Elio Flores, Alvaro Javier, Aldo Conejo, Javier Aymara, Oscar Raymy e Sonia Maribel. Special Guest – Conjunto Autóctono “Jach’a Sicuris de Italaque” e Sueli Feliziani. Costumes – Carina Casuscelli. Sound Track – Wilson Sukorski. Videos – Cristian Cancino e Giuliano Conti.Soundboard Operator – Felipe Moraes. Lightboard Operator – Verônica Castro. Operação Projection Operator – Téo Ponciano. Production Assistant – Gustavo Werner. Spatial Concept and Production – Carina Casuscelli e Lenerson Polonini (Companhia Nova de
Teatro). Photos – Henrique Oda, Acauã Fonseca, Cristian Cancino, Marcos Vidal, Antonio Andrade e João Carlos (JaozinFotografia).
Seasons and performances:
- Iberian American Festival of São Paulo-March 2011
- Performance / lecture – 8th South America Festival – Corumba (MS) May 2011
- Centro Cultural São Paulo (SP) September /October 2011
- FLAAC- African and Latin American Festival of Culture and Art (Brasília - DF) September 2012
- Internacional ward Teresa Pomodoro/ November 2012, Milan-Italy.
- SESC Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro - Season, March 2013
- SESC Bom Retiro, São Paulo - Season, July/August 2013
- Centro Cultural Olido - Season, November 2022