This Diptych is the production of two choreographic works that complement and complexify each other, like two photographic images placed side by side. Diptych is a project at the crossroads of theatre, dance, literature and visual arts, consisting of a piece for three performers (“Matamatá”) and a solo conference ("Life is not useful or It is what it is). It is the deployment of my infinite search towards and around the marvellous.
Faced with the zeitgeist of our time, the climate catastrophe, the imminent death of the largest tropical forest on the planet and other challenges, as a choreographic artist I ask myself: Will we be able to reforest/replant, to become a forest with our bodies and our cities, how are we going to find joy and pleasure and not fall into melancholic and eco-climatic anguish? How can we make a dance to delay the end of a world?
We start from bodily fabulations to perhaps make the audience’s thoughts dance.

• Solo: Life is not useful (or it is what it is) (Création - November 2023)
  « I’m here, and there is nothing to say (...) I have nothing to say and I’m saying it and that is poetry as I need it »
  Jonh Cage in Lecture on Nothing, 1959
  Ailton Krenak, a philosopher with an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora Minas Gerais in Brazil, has published his ideas under the titles "Ideas for delaying the end of the world", "Life is not useful", "Tomorrow is not for sale"... based on his words, I’m dreaming up a solo-conference-dance, treating these interviews as musical scores. My job is to compose a movement script using his words. Dancing as a way of inhabiting another way of thinking, of letting ourselves be moved by his words, which denounce the devouring and eating of worlds.

concept, choreography & performance Bruno Freire (BE/BR)
light design Laura Salerno (BR)
sound design Tomas Monteiro (BR)
Provocations Cristian Duarte (BR), Ana Teixeira (BR)
Traduction from portugues helped by
Dramaturgy feedbacks and text adaptation Roz Whytes (english), Anna Czapski (french)

• Trio: Matamatá (Création - Octobre 2023)
  What if Descartes or Spinoza had visited the Brazilian rainforest? Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski’s Catatau poem or romance-idea is based on this dream of a philosopher confronted with another environment that bankrupts his thoughts. Arriving at the Atlantic mata where everything is astonishing, where there is an abundant profusion of life, where the heat and thoughts of the beasts transform what constitutes their bodies; three dancers whisper, sing and eat . A blend of voices, gestures and bodies sharing a stage that becomes the forest of our unconscious.

concept & choreography Bruno Freire (BE/BR)
performers Robson Ledesma (BE/BR), Magdelaine Hodebourg (BE/FR) Annabel Reid (BE)
Kempo training Thiago Antunes (BE/BR)
sound design Ricardo Vincenzo (BR)
light design Felipe Boquimpani (BR)
Costumes+Makeup Stef Assandri (UY/BE)
dramaturgy Rodrigo Batista (BR)
provocations Ana Teixeira (BR)

Production Stephanie Bouteille, Pierre-Laurent Boudet, Rocio Leza pour Entropie Production
Executive Production La Balsamine
Coproduction La Balsamine, Charleroi Danse - centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Cigalière, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod,
With the support of Service de la Danse de la Fédération Wallonie - Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, European Union - Culture Moves Europe, Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre-Danse, taxshelter.be, ING, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement fédéral belge
Residencies Festival International BAM (Siby/Bamako - Mali), WorkspaceBrussels, KRAAK Santarcangelo International Festival (It), La Cigalière (Sérignan - Fr), BUDA Kunstencentrum (Courtrai - Be)
, Théâtre VARIA (Be)
Acknowledgements Tarina Quelho, Thiago Alixandre, Calixto Neto, Breno Caetano, Zé Fernando, Louise Cardon & Cao Guimarães