Rózà
Theater | 97’ | Brazil | 2014Rózà is a multimedia performance built from the letters and writings of Rosa Luxemburg, most of them penned from prison. Blending theater and cinema through projections and visual imagery, the piece brings the revolutionary figure of Rosa into the present, in dialogue with today’s struggles and uprisings. The audience is invited to step into an installation-space that transforms into a bedroom, a prison, a street, or a garden.
CREDITS
Concept Martha Kiss Perrone
Direction Martha Kiss Perrone and Joana Levi
Performers Carolina Bianchi, Joana Levi, Martha Kiss Perrone
Dramaturgy Martha Kiss Perrone
Musical performance Fronte Violenta (Anelena Toku and Carla Boregas)
Video design Marília Scharlach and Olívia Niculitcheff
Video operation Olívia Niculitcheff and Alicia Esteves
Musical direction Edson Secco
Composition Edson Secco and Fronte Violeta
Scenographic installation Renato Bolelli Rebouças
Assistant director Olívia Niculitcheff
Lighting operation Maurício Mascarenhas
Assistant lighting Beatriz Camelo
Set technician Jeff Lemes
Production Veridiana Mott and Martha Kiss Perrone
Production assistant Paula Sonnewend Serra
Co-production Casa do Povo
Visual design Carlos Perrone
Support Forma Certa
MARTHA KISS PERRONE
Martha Kiss Perrone is a Brazilian director, actress, and playwright working at the intersection of theater, performance, dance, and cinema. A graduate of Teatro Escola Célia Helena and FAAP’s Visual Arts program, she founded the Tablado de Arruar theater collective and directed works such as Endgame by Samuel Beckett and Rózà, a multimedia piece featured in the Official Selection of the Curitiba Theater Festival and praised as one of the year’s best. Her career includes international experiences with Théâtre du Soleil (France) and the Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin), and influential collaborations in cinema: she was art director and acting coach for Petra Costa’s Elena, co-writer of Olmo and the Seagull, and collaborator on Moara Passoni’s Êxtase. She is a member of ColetivA Ocupação, with whom she performed When It Breaks It Burns in Brazil and abroad, and is currently developing Revolta Lilith, Goldfadn’s Dream (Casa do Povo), and Antigone in the Amazon in collaboration with Swiss director Milo Rau. Her creative inquiry traverses bodies, territories, and struggles — making theater a space of insurgency and reinvention.
Photo: Laima Arlauskaite
JOANA LEVI
Joana Levi is a Brazilian performer, director, and dramaturg based in Lisbon since 2017. She holds a Philosophy degree from the University of São Paulo and a Master’s in Aesthetics from NOVA University Lisbon. For over two decades, she has developed an artistic practice that weaves performance, theater, dance, and philosophical thought. Her creations arise through collaborative and transdisciplinary processes, attuned to the frictions between body, imagination, and sensory experience. In Brazil, she created works such as Museu Encantador (Funarte Award), in collaboration with Rita Natálio; Rózà (Zé Renato Award), with Martha Kiss Perrone; and In_Trânsito (Stage Production Award), with Cia Marginal. In Portugal, she has collaborated with artists such as Carlota Lagido, Sónia Baptista, Gustavo Ciríaco, and Julia Salem, presenting her work at venues like Alkantara Festival, Teatro São Luiz, and Culturgest. She is a member of Penha SCO Arte Cooperativa, where she curates and manages performative projects. Her path inhabits hybrid territories where aesthetics and politics converge to challenge the boundaries of the visible, the sensible, and the sayable.
Photo: Suzana Chicó
“Rózà was one of the jewels of the year. The production drew from the letters of Rosa Luxemburg, combining theater, music, video, and performance. The result is a powerful experience — an illumination, an enchantment for the heart.”
Maria Eugênia Menezes, O Estado de S. Paulo
