ReFerência em Artes

About ReFerência

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The ReFerência em Artes is an independent cultural production company founded by the artists and choreographers Renata Versiani and Fernanda Cavalcanti. It grew out of the desire to bring dance to as many people as possible and to keep an ongoing dialogue with other forms of artistic expression throughout its creative processes and products.

The company brings dance into dialogue with the worlds of sports, gaming, fashion, visual arts, photography, music and literature, creating job opportunities for more than 100 artists since it was founded.

Team

Renata Versiani

A professional dancer for over 30 years, she spent 7 years as First Dancer at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro. Creative performer with Deborah Colker Dance Company and with the companies Staccato/Paulo Caldas, Atelier de Coreografia/João Saldanha, Paula Maracajá and Flávia Tápias. Assistant director and choreographer for Grupo Tápias, Festival Dança em Trânsito 2016 and Porto de Regina Miranda Cia. Opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics. Professor on the undergraduate faculty of Faculdade Escola Angel Vianna, where she earned her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis.

Fernanda Cavalcanti

A professional dancer for over 25 years, trained in classical ballet at the Vienna State Opera school in Austria. She performed at the Heidelberg State Theatre in Germany, with Deborah Colker Dance Company, João Saldanha's choreographic atelier and Staccato/Paulo Caldas. Assistant director and choreographer for Deborah Colker Dance Company, the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics and the opera "Ainadamar" at Scottish Opera Glasgow in Scotland. Academic and artistic director of Espaço Vibre, a dance academy in Rio de Janeiro.

Projects

Major events, campaigns and productions created by ReFerência em Artes.