Movement oscillates between lightness and strength, balance and abandon, moving through rhythms and gestures that evoke Brazilian urban dance.
Breath, pauses and the beating of feet become part of the choreography, giving life to a presence in continuous transformation. At the heart of the work emerges the theme of disguise as a practice of transmission: a way of preserving and passing on cultures, gestures and ancestral knowledge. Between contemporary dance and Brazilian urban practices, Puff imagines the body as a space in which memory, identity and imagination continue to reinvent themselves.
Alice Ripoll and Hiltinho Fantástico PUFF
FAROUT
PUFF is a solo born from the collaboration between Alice Ripoll and Hiltinho Fantástico, in which the body seems to escape every attempt at control.
Bio
Alice Ripoll is an artist, choreographer, performer and movement director for theatre and film, active in contemporary dance for over twenty years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she leads two companies — Cia REC and Cia SUAVE — whose repertoire includes Suave, CRIA, Zona Franca, aCORdo, Lavagem and, in 2026, Adorno. She has presented her work at major festivals in Brazil and abroad, including Festival Panorama, Centre Pompidou (Paris), BAM (New York) and Kyoto Experiment.
Hiltinho Fantástico is a dancer, performer and teacher, recognised as one of the leading figures of passinho in Brazil. He gained national visibility after winning the Batalha do Passinho in 2013. In recent years he has expanded his artistic research through a close collaboration with Alice Ripoll, bringing urban dance into the realm of contemporary performance. He is part of the cast of CRIA and Zona Franca (Cia SUAVE) and aCORdo and Lavagem (Cia REC). In 2025 he premiered his first solo, Puff, created by Alice Ripoll, at the Festival Actoral in Marseille.
Credits
Direction: Alice Ripoll Creation and performance: Hiltinho Fantástico
Assistant direction: Alan Ferreira and Thais Peixoto
Light designer: Tomás Ribas Costume And scenography: Alice Ripoll and Thais Peixoto
Tour manager: Joana D’Aguiar
Production assistant: Isabela Peixoto and Thais Peixoto
Original soundtrack: Alice Ripoll e Mimosa
Coproduction: Rotterdam Theater
Support: Festival Actoral and Câmbio
Diffusion: ART HAPPENS
Additional travel exchange support for the presentation of PUFF at FAROUT was generously provided by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa and CÂMBIO.
- Duration 60'
- Doors opening at 15 minutes before the start of the performance
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