[Such Stuff As We Are Made Of]

In  her work “Ce dont nous sommes faits”, with a passion bound up with  heart and body, Lia Rodrigues considers the meaning of the word  “discover”: to take off or withdraw that which covers, to bring to  light, reveal, invent… and the diktat of beauty. Nude, the dancers deal  in turn with the issues of discovering the other, one's convictions and  the place that the body holds in our society. Next the bodies drape  themselves in slogans, advertising phrases and other quotations… With  Lia Rodrigues, the body is never pure, but poisoned by too much  information.

“Ce dont nous sommes faits”, created to coincide with  the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil, was awarded the Rio  Dança Prize 2000 (choreography and music).

Born in Brazil, Lia Rodrigues, after training as a classical ballet dancer in São Paulo, founded the Groupo Andança in 1977. Between 1980 and 1982 she resided in France where she joined the Maguy Marin company. On her return to Brazil, she founded her own company, the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.

In addition to producing all her shows, in 1992 Lia Rodrigues created the contemporary dance Festival, Panorama da Dança, which she directed until 2005. Since 2004 she has developed artistic and didactic actions in the Maré favela, where she created, in partnership with Redes da Maré, the Centro de Artes da Maré in 2009, and in 2012 the Escola livre de Danças da Maré. 

She was awarded by the French government the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2014, she was awarded the Prize of the Prince Claus Fund followed, in 2016, by the SACD choreographic prize / France.

Her recent creations include Pororoca (2009), Piracema (2011), Pindorama (2013) and Para que o céu não caia (To prevent the sky from falling) (2016).

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).