Beatriz Azevedo presents the show ACROBEAT
– Music and Poetry from Brazil – in Paris
with special guest Maria de Medeiros.
BEATRIZ AZEVEDO
ACROBEAT
Brazilian Anthropophagic Music
Special guest Maria de Medeiros (Portugal/France)
Auditorium
CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS
18, rue de L’Hotel de Ville – Marais.
Paris, France
November 29, 2023 – 19h00
BEATRIZ AZEVEDO voice + acoustic guitar + songs + poems
MARIA DE MEDEIROS voice + performance + translations to French
Marco de Vita keys + harmonica
James Múller drums + percussion
Caio de Azevedo violoncello
Leonardo Montana piano
Alongside actress and filmmaker Maria de Medeiros, multi-artist Beatriz Azevedo present a concert of contemporary Brazilian music in Paris, with her own compositions, in which she signs the music, lyrics and arrangements. Maria de Medeiros translates all texts – poems and songs – from Portuguese to French, and the artists interpret them in several languages.
The repertoire includes Beatriz Azevedo’s works and partnerships with artists such as Moreno Veloso, Zélia Duncan and Vinicius Cantuária, among others, as well as arrangements of songs by Tom Jobim, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and Caetano Veloso. Beatriz and Maria will also perform compositions inspired by literary works by authors such as Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst, Oswald de Andrade and Jean Genet.
In 2023, Beatriz Azevedo was awarded a Cité Internationale des Arts residency in the Marais, Paris. Transdisciplinary artist Beatriz Azevedo is a Visiting Scholar at New York University, Tisch Arts, Cinema/Performance Studies, living between Rio de Janeiro, Paris and New York.
[Images by Julia de Medeiros, Paris, 29 november 2023].
Beatriz latest album, “CLARICE CLARÃO,” released in Brazil at the end of 2022, is a dive into the work of Clarice Lispector. The project was born out of an invitation from Princeton University in the United States to Beatriz to create a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Brazilian/Ukrainian writer Clarice Lispector. Based on Beatriz Azevedo’s compositions such as “Clarice Clarão,” the project resulted in the 59-minute musical documentary, “NOW CLARICE,” shown at Princeton University, on SESC TV and SESC SP’s digital portal.
The CD released by SELO SESC SP, and the LP “CLARICE CLARÃO,” featuring Moreno Veloso, Jaques Morelenbaum and the iconic singer Maria Bethânia. The LP also features an introductory text by Caetano Veloso and cover art by Marcia Tiburi. Some of the compositions from the “Clarice Clarão” project will be presented on November 29 at the CITÉ DES ARTS in Paris. https://www.beatrizazevedo.com/album/clariceclarao/
The repertoire also includes compositions from her previous albums, “A.G.O.R.A.,” which featured Matheus Nachtergaele and Zélia Duncan, and the live album “AntroPOPhagia” recorded at Lincoln Center in New York.
“AntroPOPhagia” expands Beatriz Azevedo’s research into anthropophagy to the music and performance scene. After launching the book “Antropofagia Palimpsesto Selvagem” (Cosac Naify 2016), with a preface by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and drawings by the artist Tunga, Beatriz brought to the stage the concept of the Amerindian ritual of the native peoples, especially Tupinambá, before colonization. By incorporating the 1928 spelling in Brazil – where “f” was written as “ph,” as in “pharmácia” – Beatriz observed that the word “anthropophagia” was also written with a “ph”, “anthropophagy”. The artist then recreated the concept for the 21st century, highlighting the presence of the term “POP” at the center of the word anthroPOPhagia.
Integrating poetry, performance and music, the show’s cast includes Brazilian musicians Caio de Azevedo (Cello), James Müller (Drums and Percussion) and Marco de Vita (Keys and Harmonica). Leonardo Montana plays Piano.
Beatriz Azevedo sings, plays the guitar and performs her poems, alongside actress Maria de Medeiros, in a very special appearance.
The Parisian public will be able to watch a show that articulates Brazilian culture in an original, questioning and inventive way. The show will mark the launch of the Clarice Clarão LP in Paris, which will be autographed by the artist at the Cité Internationale des Arts.
Maria de Medeiros, born in Lisbon, is an international actress and director.
At eighteen, she settled in Paris to study philosophy and theatre. She quickly began to perform both on stage and film.
She was awarded the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in “Two brothers, my sister” by Teresa Villaverde.
She played “Anaïs Nin” in Phil Kaufman’s “Henry and June” and Fabienne in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”.
She worked with Guy Maddin in Canada, Bigas Luna in Spain, Manoel de Oliveira in Portugal, Antonietta de Lillo and Abel Ferrara in Italy, Luiz Villaça in Brazil and many other directors all over the world, performing in 6 languages.
She also did a lot of theatre and recorded 3 albums as a singer and composer.
In 2007, Maria de Medeiros was honored with Unesco’s title of Artist for Peace. She is “Officier des Arts et des Lettres” in France.
Her first feature, “April Captains”, on the famous Portuguese “Carnation Revolution”, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Official Selection “Un certain regard”. It received many awards throughout the world.
She also directed the feature-long documentary “Je t’aime, moi non plus – artists and critics” on the complex relationship between artists and critics, interviewing some of the biggest names of world cinema. Her latest documentary on the Amnesty and Reparation Commission in Brazil, “Bacuri’s eyes”, was three times awarded in Gramado Film Festival 2013, with the Jury Prize, the Critic’s Prize and the Don Quijote Prize. It won Best Film at the Ficip (International Political Cinema Festival) in Buenos Aires.
Her new feature film as a director, shot in Brazil: “Our children”, came out in 2022 in France and Brazil. It addresses important and universal topics like transmission between generations and children in gay couples.
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Beatriz Azevedo is a Brazilian multi-artist, poet, performer and composer, “who has emerged in recent years as one of Brazil’s most innovative artists”. Her artistic practice mixes the languages of music, theater, performance, literature and audiovisual.
In 2023, she received the Cité Internationale des Arts award for an artistic residency in Paris, France. Artist and transdisciplinary researcher, Beatriz is Visiting Scholar at Tisch Arts New York University, and Associate Member of the Center for Research on Lusophone Peoples at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
Beatriz holds a doctorate in Performing Arts and a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP). She is a post-doctoral researcher at UNICAMP – State University of Campinas. She studied music at Mannes College of Music in New York and theater and dramaturgy at Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
Beatriz Azevedo has collaborated with important Brazilian musicians and artists such as Maria Bethânia, Tom Zé, Cyro Baptista, Jaques Morelenbaum, Moreno Veloso and Vinicius Cantuária, as well as Teatro Oficina director Zé Celso. She has formed partnerships with the poet Augusto de Campos, the writers Hilda Hilst, Oswald de Andrade and Raul Bopp. Her musical compositions have been sung by Adriana Calcanhotto, Matheus Nachtergaele, Moreno Veloso, Tom Zé, Zélia Duncan and Zé Celso Martinez Correa, among others.
She has performed at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as taking part in various international festivals: Womex (Spain), Nublu Jazz Festival (New York), Celebrate Brazil at Lincoln Center (New York), CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival (New York), Femmes du Monde (Paris), Mirada Festival Ibero-Americano (Brazil), Popkomm Festival (Berlin), Dunya Festival (Rotterdam), Copa da Cultura (Berlin), Art Anthropophagie Aujourd’hui (Paris), Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), Verizon Music Festival (New York), among others. https://www.beatrizazevedo.com/
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