How is speech articulated in body language? How can movement and thought interact, all this in a single body?

It is based on such questions that Bruno Beltrão created Moi et mon chorégraphe au 63, whose Divagations dans une chambre d'hôtel is the recreation in film form. Inserts of urban images, fragmented and demultiplied, accentuate the tension and the dislocated nature of the solo. 

Initiated to street dance in 1993, at the age of 13, Beltrão quickly became one of its virtuoso representatives in Brazil and considers hip hop as the base of his expression. However, with the Grupo de Rua de Niterói (Niterói is his hometown in the suburbs of Rio), which he founded three years later with Rodrigo Bernardi, he was to seek not so much to set himself apart from it as to free it from its codes and clichés: “Hip hop has placed in orbit a rich and innovative vocabulary. We now need to provoke in it a crisis. By distancing and dissecting its vocabulary, we can discover new aesthetics”. This was exactly what he set out to do, with remarkable maturity, as from his first works, relying especially on the writing processes of contemporary dance. 

Through its intimist dimension, the mastery of its gestural composition, its musical score made up of the dancer’s voice, and its words that seek themselves, Moi et mon chorégraphe is a perfect example of the language elaborated by Beltrão.

Source : Myriam Bloedé

In the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, Bruno Beltrão with his company Grupo de Rua Niterói combines the language, gestures, and rituals of the street with the codes of contemporary dance. Inspired by urban dances in general, and hip-hop in particular, he frees himself from conventional structures and stereotypes to open up a new territorial and disciplinary geography.
Bruno Beltrão began dancing at the age of thirteen by taking lessons, watching video clips and studying everyday movements. A few years later in 1996, he co-founded the Grupo de Rua de Niterói which, in its early days, was mainly dedicated to dance competitions and appearances in festivals and on television. While remaining very close to the street, the collective comes to question the way of transposing the techniques of street dance to the stage, gradually endeavoring to take hip-hop out of the limits of its own definition. In 2000, Bruno Beltrão trained in Art History and Philosophy at the University of Rio de Janeiro before taking over the management of Grupo de Rua on his own. Grupo de Rua has produced eight shows that have been presented in thirty countries and one hundred and ten cities: From Popping to Pop and Me and my choreographer in 63 with dancer Eduardo Hermanson (2001) then Too Legit to Quit (2002), Telesquat (2003), H2 (2005) and H3 (2008), Crackz (2013). Named Revelation of the Year 2006 by the German magazine Ballettanz, Bruno Beltrão received a Bessie Award in New York in 2010.

Source : Festival de Marseille