Cria

Brazilian Alice Ripoll is fascinated by passinho, a dance that emerged from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and has been adopted throughout Brazil, despite its difficulty and the physical effort required.
This urban dance is a way for young people to express their rage and delight at being alive, as well as their wonderful resilience to suffering and despair.
Created with 10 dancers from the group Suave, Cria has
a kind of manic-depressive humour as the piece alternates between intense states of exultation and celebration, with the highly charged group absorbing and reconstructing the music’s rapid and jerky rhythm, and short forms in the first person tinged with melancholy and uncertainty.
A highly impure mix of samba and breakdance, frevo and kuduro, borrowing from Africa and North America, Cria closely examines states of the body and soul of a deprived generation, reinventing itself with spontaneity, generosity and unwavering richness, wanting to be born again with every step of this “new-born dance, offspring of our emotion”.