When the virtuosity of contemporary dance meets the energy of Brazil, the result is a thrilling show that celebrates the rich dance heritage of an entire country: the São Paulo Dance Company, one of the world's leading dance companies, comes to the LAC for the first time with an extraordinary three-part programme.

Since 2008, the São Paulo Dance Company has become a benchmark in the South American art scene and beyond, winning important international awards. Under the artistic direction of Inês Bogéa, the company has built up a rich repertoire over 17 years, embracing the language of classical and contemporary dance and creating over 80 choreographies. In Lugano, it presents a programme composed of works by three very different choreographers.
In Indigo Rose, renowned Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián explores the vivacity of his performers to create a work that reflects on the transition from youth to adulthood and human relationships. The movement is fast, virtuosic, articulate and at the same time lyrical, alluding to the search for perfection, which for Kylián always remains unattainable. On stage, a white silk curtain plays with light and shadow, multiplying the projections of the dancers and altering the viewer's perception.
Created especially for the São Paulo Dance Company, I've Changed My Mind by Israeli choreographer Shahar Binyamini reflects on identity and change, questioning who we are as human beings, animals, souls, entities. The title evokes the freedom of the creative process, in which it is necessary to abandon certainties in order to embrace the unknown. On stage, the dancers seek a balance between the self and the whole, like limbs of a single body listening to the present. The piece invites the audience to make space within themselves and let themselves be carried away by what the choreographer calls “the freshness of change”: a living energy that is renewed with every encounter between the stage and the audience.
In Le Chant du Rossignol, Marco Goecke composes a choreography characterised by rapid movements that dissolve into the darkness of the stage, evoking the urgency of flight, the strength hidden in fragility, nature living and dying. An ethereal work that conveys to the viewer the vibration of a subtle and powerful energy, like that of a bird held in the palm of your hand.