Bruno Beltrão

In the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, Bruno Beltrão with his company Grupo de Rua Niterói combines the language, gestures, and rituals of the street with the codes of contemporary dance. Inspired by urban dances in general, and hip-hop in particular, he frees himself from conventional structures and stereotypes to open up a new territorial and disciplinary geography.
Bruno Beltrão began dancing at the age of thirteen by taking lessons, watching video clips and studying everyday movements. A few years later in 1996, he co-founded the Grupo de Rua de Niterói which, in its early days, was mainly dedicated to dance competitions and appearances in festivals and on television. While remaining very close to the street, the collective comes to question the way of transposing the techniques of street dance to the stage, gradually endeavoring to take hip-hop out of the limits of its own definition. In 2000, Bruno Beltrão trained in Art History and Philosophy at the University of Rio de Janeiro before taking over the management of Grupo de Rua on his own. Grupo de Rua has produced eight shows that have been presented in thirty countries and one hundred and ten cities: From Popping to Pop and Me and my choreographer in 63 with dancer Eduardo Hermanson (2001) then Too Legit to Quit (2002), Telesquat (2003), H2 (2005) and H3 (2008), Crackz (2013). Named Revelation of the Year 2006 by the German magazine Ballettanz, Bruno Beltrão received a Bessie Award in New York in 2010.

Source : Festival de Marseille