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Figurinos Radicais

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Marina Reis

* 23.06.1975
Specialization: costume designer, puppet designer, Performer, Prop designer, Make up, beggining as puppet designer
Education: Post-graduate degree in fashion design and creation from Faculdade Santa Marcelina,São Paulo (2003); plastic arts degree from UNICAMP, São Paulo (1999)
Collaboration with theatres: Midia Ka and Cia Bendita Trupe
Continuing collaboration with directors: Renato Cohen (until his last work in 2003), Antonio Araújo, Johana Albuquerque, Alvise Camozzi, Marcelo Romagnoli, Cris Lozzano.
Additional information: Marina Reis started her work in the performing arts when she was still studying at the Plastic Arts college. When she came across director and performer Renato Cohen, she found an opportunity to combine her research with the body and collage technique. She then participated in a one-year project with graduate students of performing arts at UNICAMP. At the beginning of her career - and influenced by the work of Joseph Beuys - Reis specialized in working with alternative materials and reframing objects in the performer's body, using different materials for costumes, including organic materials. This specificity of her work has become a signature on her projects for performance, theater and dance. Reis is also very interested in the aesthetics and the arts and sociology of Japanese culture, and completed course work on “Mangá and Japanese Street Fashion” in 2003. She is currently researching Japanese dolls' cutout techniques and apparel.

Exhibiting works

• Peri Pane: Man and Woman Reflux (Man and Woman Reflux ), Contemporary Cultural Centre of Barcelon (Spain), during the Festival Drap Art (Contemporary Cultural Centre of Barcelon (Spain), during the Festival Drap Art), 2006, Director: Peri Pane, ;
  Comments: Characters: Parangolixoluxo 2
  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• Leo Fressato

* 14.10.1986, Brasília, Brazil
Specialization: director, actor, author, conductor, costume designer, Audiovisual Communication
Education: Post-graduate degree in audiovisual communication (PUC-Paraná); degree in scenic arts / theatre direction from Faculdade de Artes do Paraná (FAP)
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro de Ruído


Exhibiting works

• Leo Fressato, Débora Vecchi e Elenize Dezgeninski: A Menina e o Outono (The Girl and Autumn), Teatro Novelas Curitibanas (Novelas Curitibanas Theatre), 2007 Performers: Cleydson Nascimento, Fábia Regina, Fernando Volpi, Leo Fressato e Manu Sotoski ; Identification of exhibit: photo, video ;
  Comments: A study of a costume that not only visually composes the scene, but also modifies it and gives it new meaning. The costume is made of ice and pieces of cloth that are an interesting scenic material on their own, thanks to their plasticity (transparency, reflectivity, etc.). The costime also has an important “performative capacity”, since it interacts directly with the public, which cannot remain passive when seeing someone’s body covered by ice.
  
  The costume interacts with the performers as well, not only because they are transformed by the costume itself but also because they are changed by the “penetrating capacity” of the cold that modifies them psychologically and metabolically: pain, speech acceleration, coldness, lack of breathing control, extreme anguish, action, inactivity.
  
  This is a study of pain and melancholia, in costumes created from an abundant element in Brazil, but scarce in many parts all over the world: water, which changes “what is alive, live on the stage”.
  
  Costumes created: clogs, bras and props (necklaces, bracelets etc.)
  

  

  
  
  
• Karin Serafin

* 09.10.1972, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Specialization: costume designer, Ballerina
Education: Plastic arts degree from Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (1994)
Continuing collaboration with directors: Member of director Alejandro Ahmed's Grupo Cena 11 as ballerina and director since 1992, having participated in all of the company's productions and performances and taken over the costume design job in 1997 for the show “In'perfeito”.
Additional information: Created the costume design for "End#01" with Hedra Rockenbach The play PFdSRFi received the following national awards: Bravo! Prime de Cultura Award (2007); Sergio Motta Award of Art and Technology (2007); Best Research in Dance of APCA Award (2007)

Exhibiting works

• Grupo Cena 11 Cia. De Dança (Florianópolis - SC): Pequenas frestas de ficção sobre realidade insistente (PFdSRFi), Teatro do Sesc Pinheiros (Sesc Pinheiros Theatre), 2007, Director: Coreographer: Alejandro Ahmed<br /><br /><br />
  , Costume Designers: Karin Serafin and Hedra Rockenbach Dancer: Karin Serafin Photos: Gilson Camargo ; Identification of exhibit: costume, photo, video, others ;
  Comments: The costume for End#01 has the double function of helping the dancer to pop six balloons with her skewers while protecting her from the paintballs that end the play.
  
  It was originally created inside an entire system that emerged from aesthetic goals: to allow the movement relation between the dancer and systems of modifications in the environment via physical/digital interfaces; to propose the public involvement into the environment of the proposed game, capable of activate the paintballs; to perform survival techniques.
  
  Developed from cardboard models, the suitable material for the scene was 3mm-polycarbonate; because of its transparency, it allows a new configuration of nudity and of the costume itself through the movement of the pink colours in the cone format. The costume also reveals the fragility of a body exposed to the game, and its condition of adaptation to the environment.
  

  
  
  
• Hedra Rockenbach

* 08.12.1974, Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Specialization: Musician, Art Director, Stage Setting Coordinator
Collaboration with theatres: Member of director Alejandro Ahmed's Grupo Cena 11 company (musician and stage setting coordinator) since 1995; has participated in all of the company's productions and performances
Continuing collaboration with directors: Alejandro Ahmed (Grupo Cena 11 Cia. De Dança)
Additional information: Created the costume design for "End#01" with Karin Serafin. National Awards: Bravo! Prime de Cultura Award (2007); Sergio Motta Award of Art and Technology (2007); Best Research in Dance of APCA Award (2007); Best Sound Designer in the 6th Brazilian Festival of Llimeira’s Theatre (São Paulo)

Exhibiting works

• Grupo Cena 11 Cia. De Dança (Florianópolis): Pequenas frestas de ficção sobre realidade insistente (PFdSRFi), Teatro do Sesc Pinheiros (Sesc Pinheiros Theatre), 2007, Director: Choreographer: Alejandro Ahmed<br /><br />
  , Costume Designers: Karin Serafin and Hedra Rockenbach Dancer: Karin Serafin Photos: Gilson Camargo ; Identification of exhibit: costume, photo, video, others ;
  Comments: The costume for End#01 has the double function of helping the dancer to pop six balloons with her skewers while protecting her from the paintballs that end the play.
  
  It was originally created inside an entire system that emerged from aesthetic goals: to allow the movement relation between the dancer and systems of modifications in the environment via physical/digital interfaces; to propose the public involvement into the environment of the proposed game, capable of activate the paintballs; to perform survival techniques.
  
  Developed from cardboard models, the suitable material for the scene was 3mm-polycarbonate; because of its transparency, it allows a new configuration of nudity and of the costume itself through the movement of the pink colours in the cone format. The costume also reveals the fragility of a body exposed to the game, and its condition of adaptation to the environment.