- 22 August 2025 4 pm UTC
- dur 32 min
Invisible Universe is the new coreography by performer-creator Luciana Hoppe, directed by Paulo Marcello and original music and projections created by musician and video artist Haroldo Paraguassú. It is a dance coreography, freely inspired by the work of Valter Hugo Mãe, Homens Imprudentemente Poéticos, hasn’t been translated into English yet, but the title means something like ‘Reckelessly Poetic Man’, which deals with the human soul in a sensitive and intense way. Combining dance and performance with original music, multimedia projection, literature and ecology, the coreography summons our gaze inwards, to what is obscure, invisible, and to our relationship with the universe. A fall through ourselves and the monsters that inhabit our inner universe. Nature is the living habitat through which human action takes place while moving away from it, represented by the civilizing desert in which we live.
Born in Rio Grande do Sul (South of Brazil) and currently based in São Paulo, Luciana Hoppe holds a master\’s degree in Performing Arts from UNICAMP, graduated in Psychology from UNISC and in Dance from UERGS. Interpreter-creator and director, in recent years she has been developing research into dance creation, combining her dance training with the somatic approach of Body-Mind CenteringTM. She has a strong presence both as an undergraduate professor (Faculdade Paulista de Artes and in Graduate Studies in Dance and Body Consciousness (FMU and Estácio) and as a guiding artist of the Vocational Program (2017-2020). As a director, she created the show O corpo visível “entre”espelhos, Solo em Água Fervente (winner of the 2011 Açorianos Dance Award for best show, dancer, lighting and scenography), with the show Uma Fada no Freezer (performance by Ana Schneider, had the Mais Teatro award for Revelation Actress); the show Os Bichos Não Tem Avesso in Porto Alegre in 2012 and “Episódio X: Departure” (FUNARTE artistic residency: Other Dances) in 2012; and co-directed the show Polaroides Mande In Dança in Porto Alegre, in 2012. As a performer, he danced the work Discothéque by Luis Ferron and participated in works with Ânima Cia de Dança, Grupo de Risco and Eduardo Severino Cia de Dança, Hybris Cia of Dance, Diverse Bodies Dancers in Porto Alegre and with Cia Nova Dança 8 and with the Núcleo da TAANTEATRO in São Paulo. It is important to point out that the artist participated in the formation of the Coletivo de Dança Sala 209 at Usina do Gasômetro in Porto Alegre and, now in the city of São Paulo, is a member of the collective A Dança Se Move. With her solo creation Bestiário, she performed in several places such as the Reference Center for Dance in SP at the events “Modos de se Mover”, II Mostra Só Solos, Tuesdays at Kasulo, as well as at the Federal University of Santa Maria (2017) , at the I International Meeting of Somatics and Dance in Brasília (2018), at the VI Bienal da Dança do Ceará (2018), , XI Festival Universitário das Artes Cênicas de Goiás (FUGA, 2018), at the I Festival Encuentro de Danza de Pichilemu in Chile (2019), Cruzamentos: Meeting of artists from different contexts at SESC IPIRANGA (2019), 6th Festival Dança à Deriva (2019); Festival Danza em la Ciudad in Colombia (2021). His other solo SKYGROUND in video dance form premiered on CRD\’s YouTube channel and was screened at international film festivals 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) in Greece and on display at the Afterlife Film Festival and Supp Gallery in Johannesburg in Africa, On Earth Awards in India and Film Festival of Youtube Art Club Pavlos Paraschakis in Greece. artist website
