[RE]FLORESTA
Concept, dramaturgy, direction, and sound: Thiago Cohen
Salvador, Bahia
Premiere: 2026
Last updated: October 29, 2026
Photo: Talit Pereira
Conceived by Thiago Cohen, [RE]FLORESTA ([RE]FOREST) is a dance performance-installation that investigates the body as a living territory of memory, nature, and transformation. Leaves, branches, and organic materials from urban tree pruning form an installation that comes to life through the performers’ action, creating a shared experience with the audience.
The work arises from Thiago Cohen’s ongoing research into becoming-tree, in dialogue with Afro-Pindoramic cosmoperceptions and ancestral knowledge. Along this path, dance interweaves with the earth, with roots, with winds, and with time, turning the performance space into an environment of encounter between human and more-than-human bodies, organic matter, and collectivity. By bringing art, ecology, and ancestry together, [RE]FLORESTA invites us to slow the gaze and to cultivate other perceptions of the relationships between body, territory, and community.
Credits
Concept, dramaturgy, direction, and sound: Thiago Cohen
Production: Nei Lima
Production assistant: Ixchel Castro
Devising performers: Bernardo Oliveira, Elinilson Soares, Flora Rocha, Ixchel Castro, João Rafael Neto, Jota Júnior, Nabi Brandão, and Tempuh Carvalho
Movement coaching: Nabi Brandão
Designer: Naiara Rezende
Lighting design: Diego Gonçalves
Audiovisual documentation: João Rafael Neto and Tempuh Carvalho
Video editing: Daniel Utrez
Age rating: All ages
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Thiago Cohen
Floresta – Thiago Cohen's Dissertation
Master’s Dissertation
Graduate Program in Dance – Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Title: Floresta: Poetry as Afro-Pindoramic Magic in Dance Creation Processes
Synopsis: The work explores the intersection between poetry, dance, and ancestrality, presenting an artist’s book structured in three parts: to fertilize, to sow, and to harvest. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Carlos Eduardo Oliveira do Carmo, it highlights the importance of ancestrality and artistic practices in building a trajectory in dance. The research proposes a poetic and ethical approach to art, encouraging reflection on the relationship between body, environment, and collectivity.
Technical requirements
LIGHTING
Operation run from a laptop, with the venue’s DMX or Art-Net interface
- 4 ellipsoidal spotlights, 50° (corridors)
- 7 ellipsoidal spotlights, 50° (branches)
- 9 Source Four 5° or parnels (general — individually controlled)
- 5 Source Four 5° or parnels (spiral specials)
- 8 Source Four 5° or parnels (audience)
- 4 towers
- 2 tripods
- 1 fog machine
SOUND
P.A. AND SUBWOOFER SYSTEM FACING THE PERFORMANCE AREA
Operation run from a laptop – 3.5 mm output from the laptop
PERFORMANCE AREA
Approximately 7 m x 7 m
It is important that there be space behind the tiered seating for the performers to cross and for access through the corners.
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