PUFF is about to blow into the Lilian Baylis Studio 💨
This remarkable solo performance moves through samba, capoeira and passinho, exploring the ancestry of Brazilian dance, starting in Africa.
A product of the long-standing collaboration between Brazilian choreographers and dancers Alice Ripoll and Hiltinho Fantástico, PUFF is a performance not to be missed.
📅 13 – 14 May
📍Lilian Baylis Studio
@ripoll.alice@ohiltinho
#Dance #Solo #Contemporary
If I were you, I wouldn’t miss it!
13 and 14 May – Puff in London – Sadler’s Wells
14 and 15 May – Puff in Dublin – Dublin Dance Festival
2 and 3 July – Puff in Lausanne
7 July – Puff in Amsterdam
1 and 2 August – Adorno in Berlin
First ADORNO tour wrapped up with beautiful performances!
A big thank you to our partners who believed in and trusted our work.
Stay tuned to our schedule!
13 and 14 May – Puff in London – Sadler’s Wells
15 and 16 May – Puff in Dublin – Dublin Dance Festival
2 and 3 July – Puff in Lausanne
7 July – Puff in Amsterdam
1 and 2 August – Adorno in Berlin
ADORNO is…
Direction: Alice Ripoll Dancers: Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correa, Romulo Galvão, Tamires Costa, Tuany Nascimento
Assistance in direction, scenography and costumes: Thais Peixoto Tour manager: Joana D’Aguiar Production and costumes assistant: Isabela Peixoto Stand-in: Allison Trindade
Light Design: Tomás Ribas
Scenography: Aurora dos Campos, Alice Ripoll
Costumes: Cia REC
Rehearsal Assistant: Tony Ewerton
Teachers: Camila Moura, Laura Samy, Pedro Lima
Diffusion: ART HAPPENS
Co-production: Festival Dias da Dança, Theater Rotterdam, PACT Zollverein, Charleroi Danse
Com a parada a avançar à frente dos nossos olhos, no arranque da segunda semana do #DDD2026, mergulhámos na zona de rebentação que a estreia absoluta de Ⱥdorno provocou no Teatro Campo Alegre (@teatromunicipaldoporto ). 🏊
Uma coreografia magnética feita de metamorfoses, brilhos e corpos, que assinalou o regresso de Alice Ripoll (@ripoll.alice ) ao festival (a peça segue agora para digressão europeia). 🎈
∞
With the parade unfolding before our eyes, at the start of the second week of #DDD2026, we plunged into the surf zone that the premiere of Ⱥdorno provoked at Teatro Campo Alegre. 🏊
A magnetic choreography made of metamorphoses, sparkles, and bodies, which marked Alice Ripoll’s return to the festival (the work is now going on a European tour). 🎈
📸 João Octávio Peixoto/DDD (@joctaviop )
📹 a-tundra/DDD (@a_tundra_ )
Tonight: the NL premiere of aDORno by Alice Ripoll at Theater Rotterdam.
After a widely acclaimed premiere weekend at Teatro Municipal do Porto, this is your chance to experience this urgent, physical and sensory performance.
“Dance is not interpreted. It happens.” - ★★★★★ Público
There are still a few tickets left. Also: aDORno can only be seen in Rotterdam. Don’t miss it!
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Vanavond: de NL-première van aDORno van Alice Ripoll in Theater Rotterdam. Na een lovend ontvangen premièreweekend in Teatro Municipal do Porto is dit je kans om deze urgente, fysieke en zintuiglijke performance zelf te ervaren.
“De dans wordt niet geïnterpreteerd. Ze gebeurt.” - ★★★★★ Público
Er zijn nog enkele kaarten beschikbaar. En: aDORno is alleen in Rotterdam te zien. Don’t miss it!
📅 24 & 25 april
📍 TR25 Schouwburg
🔗 tr.nl/adorno
Great 5-star review for Adorno! By journalist Rita Xavier, for DDD – Festival Dias da Dança
My selection translation:
“They crawl and track the ruins of our Eurocentric towers —tall, white, human— a collapse we insist on ‘unseeing.’ They form wild, more-than-human alliances, sniffing out their surroundings as they catch their breath, and through moans and grunts they communicate without words, anticipating what is to come. And what will come in the future of this world that drags along the culmination of all paradigms? Meanwhile, there are people who persist in their singular projects of world-making, organizing themselves and infecting our stages pasteurized by History with sweat and indulgence.”
“Let’s step back: DDD, 2019. Under the direction of Tiago Guedes, the program focused on a Brazil of bodies in tension, aiming to attract audiences who might not otherwise attend the festival. Choreographer Alice Ripoll premiered in Portugal with Cria, bringing the energy of urban funk dances—from passinho to dancinha—and aCORdo, which confronted each spectator with their own racism. Seven years later, in this tenth edition of DDD directed by Drew Klein (and in the previous two editions with Cristina Planas Leitão), the movement tunes itself to the eye of the world’s volcano, increasingly shattered and hopeless, revealing fields of tension but also real ‘artivist’ potentials. If Alice Ripoll, now well known, returns by decorating Western funeral marches with carnivalesque ornaments and the pelvic movement, when the varnish of humor cracks we notice that within the syllables of ‘adorno’ there is also ‘dor’ (pain).”
“In this new piece by Alice Ripoll, we witness a continuous rehearsal of metamorphoses.”
“And while some rehearse colonizing expeditions to Mars, others continue turning over the earth.”
https://www.publico.pt/2026/04/21/culturaipsilon/critica/alice-ripoll-cia-afrontosas-ancestars-metamorfose-falta-2172018
OOOHHH ADORNO in Rotterdam!
…Vaca profana, põe teus cornos
Pra fora e acima da manada…
24.-25.04 | Rotterdam (Nl) | Theater Rotterdam
29-30.04 | Essen (De) | PACT Zollverein
Adorno is born! Thank you very much to the entire team and to the co-producers who trusted my work!
@festivalddd , @theaterrotterdam , @pact_zollverein , @charleroidanse
Next stops:
24.-25.04 | Rotterdam (Nl) | Theater Rotterdam
29-30.04 | Essen (De) | PACT Zollverein
Direction: Alice Ripoll Dancers: Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correa, Romulo Galvão, Tamires Costa, Tuany Nascimento
Assistantance in direction, scenography and costumes: Thais Peixoto Tour manager: Joana D’Aguiar Production and costumes assistant: Isabela Peixoto Stand-in: Allison Trindade
Light Design: Tomás Ribas
Scenography: Aurora dos Campos, Alice Ripoll
Costumes: Cia REC
Rehearsal Assistant: Tony Ewerton
Teachers: Camila Moura, Laura Samy, Pedro Lima
Diffusion: ART HAPPENS
Co-production: Festival Dias da Dança, Theater Rotterdam, PACT Zollverein, Charleroi Danse
Foto: @renatomangolin
