RESEARCH

Writer and director of theater and cinema

In the last years has set up performances that dialogued with different artistic areas and with new devices of criation. In theater created the trilogy “One chair for lonely, two for dialogue and three for society”. Plays that transiting between the boundaries of reality and fiction, the actor and the character, drama and audiovisual.They were: “Studio,” “The Lack that moves us” and  “Cut”.

The research has the main objective experimentation from some boundary lines, in addition to a number of devices to generate creative tensions and different relational webs between the stage and the audience. In 2009, the work has expanded to the cinema with the film “The lack that moves us” filmed in 13 continuous hours without cutting, by three cameras in hand. The material has been edited and is now a feature film. Also has been shown in a art gallery in three screens, for 13 hours, like a “performance film” that started in the same time as the shooting began at 5.30 pm and finished at 6.30 in the morning. The research of a hybrid language between theater/ performance /film, is present in the film and also in the play “Cut”. Cut is a play edited live, with a dramaturgical structure that changes every day. The play takes place on the stage and around the theater that is surrounded by security cameras. Some scenes take place in the street scene and are seen in the theather through tv screens In 2011, with the play, Julia, the work included the possibility of creating a scenic contemporary playwriting since classic plays. “Julia” is a film and is a play. The movie is done live every day, mixing pre-filmed scenes and scenes captured in the presence of the public. Strindberg’s play remains present. Updated through the look the camera and through adaptation that bring the social and political scene about Brazil today.

In addition to the creation of new devices, the jatahy’s work has a look at today’s society. Life enters the scene through the field research for the creation of the show and also the relationship of work with the present moment, the here and now.

All the plays has traveled to Brazil’s festival and international festivals in German, Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Austria, England. The film “The Lack tha moves us” was shown at festivals in Brazil and abroad and was released in Brazil in 2011. In 2011 JULIA, premiered the piece, in which a film is done live theater and for which he won the Premio Shell for Best Director. In 2012, was the artistic director of the Rio Occupation London, residence of 30 artists from different areas creating new works during the Cultural Olympiad in London. Within the Rio Occupation London created and performed the work “In the Comfort of your own home,” a project in which the British people or residents offered their homes to be occupied with performances by the artists. The performances were filmed and shown in London in a film installation. Her next project “What if they went to Moscow?” Is a project about utopia. A mix of theater, film and performance, with debut scheduled for tmarch 2014