The Videobrasil Dance Season commissions dance artists every two years, in projects that dialog with Associação Cultural Videobrasil's archive, which has been in full swing since 1983. Considering the archive as a living organism, Videobrasil makes room for its collection to be traversed by variations of the body and choreography, confirming its historical and current relevance.
The first edition of the Videobrasil Dance Season is carried out in partnership with VERBO 2017, performance show organized by Galeria Vermelho and curated by the theater director and choreographer Carolina Mendonça and Marcos Gallon, VERBO’s artistic director. The curators selected the artist Clarissa Sacchelli for an immersion period in the Videobrasil Historical Collection, for the creation of an original choreographic work. Sacchelli selected ten videos to serve as conceptual references and work material for mixes and reenactments. The artist showcased at Galpão VB the result of her residency: the dance piece Boas Garotas [Good Girls], an attempt at investigating the relationships between public and artwork, exploring eroticism as a means of questioning and stimulating the relationships between seeing and being seen as well.
Participating artist in Season 1 and curator of the program's 2nd edition, Clarissa Sacchelli, invited Ana Pi, a dancer based in Paris for the past eight years, for a three-month residency to create a new choreographic work. Pi selected seven videos from the Videobrasil Historical Archive, which served as a conceptual and affective reference for her new work, O BΔNQUETE, a gathering of black women in the kitchen that invites reflection on the notions of heritage, affection and resistance, with performances at the CCSP and Galeria Vermelho, as part of the VERBO 2019 performance art show.