ENCRUZILHADA | renanmartins

Encruzilhada (2026)

Encruzilhada is a choreographic work about celebration as a space for resistance and negotiation as a shared practice. The piece draws on dance archives that question the contemporary, bringing together gestures from the collective imagination and dances that rarely occupy traditional contexts. Collectivity is at the heart of the work, not as an ideal, but as an unstable and necessary practice. In a time marked by fragmentation and competition, moving in a group becomes a political gesture. The performers negotiate presence, friction, and listening, while the audience follows the work as it unfolds. Encruzilhada does not seek perfection but asks how to sustain the space of the other in the face of isolation.

Choreography

Renan Martins

Choreography assistant

Helena Araújo

Dramaturgy

Iolanda Sinatra

Soundtrack and live performance

EPX, Alana Ananias

Light Design

Jô Rios

Costume

Tom Martins

Created with and performed by (in two different casts):

Alyne Mach, Ana Beatriz Nunes, Ariany Dâmaso, Bruno Rodrigues, Camila Ribeiro, Carolina Martinelli, Cleber Fantinatti, Cleia Santos, Erika Ishimaru, Fabiana Ikehara, Fabio Pinheiro, Fernanda Bueno, Grecia Catarina, Gutielle Ribeiro, Harry Gavlar, Isabela Maylart, Jessica Fadul, Leonardo Hoehne Polato, Leonardo Muniz, Leonardo Silveira, Luiz Crepaldi, Luiz Oliveira, Manuel Gomes, Marcel Anselmé, Márcio Filho, Marina Giunti, Marisa Bucoff, Odu Ofá, Rebeca Ferreira, Renata Bardazzi, Reneé Weinstrof, Silvia Kamyla, Uátila Coutinho, Victor Hugo Vila Nova, Victoria Oggiam, Yasser Díaz

BALÉ DA CIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Artistic director

Alejandro Ahmed

Direction assistant

Ana Teixeira

Rehearsal coordination

Carolina Franco, Roberta Botta

Technical coordination

Gabriel Barone Ramos

Technical coordination - tour

Denis Kageyama

Light coordination