Continuous research (2017 – present)
BRECHA is a group for interdisciplinary research and artistic creation that since 2010 has been developing projects in the areas of audiovisual, theater, dance and performance, investigating the free intersection between different artistic practices. Among the latest projects carried out by BRECHA are the play-film Já não somos doces (2021) and the webseries Língua (2020). BRECHA’s Creative and Production Nucleus is made up of Carolina Muait, Gabriel Abreu, Júlia Portes, Luisa Bruno and Patrick Sampaio.
LABo is BRECHA’s educational initiative. Among LABo’s main projects are the workshops in Real Time and Expanded Scene, which offer research and training cycles in contemporary techniques and methodologies that cross the fields of acting, performance, dramaturgy and thought, always through an interdisciplinary approach.
In these workshops, we work with different theories, techniques and notions of theatrical studies (such as Patrick Sampaio’s “Mobile Diagrams” and “Communal Traces” methodologies, João Fiadeiro’s “Real-time Composition”, Hans-Thies Lehmann “Post-dramatic Theatre”, Josette Féral’s “Performative Theatre” and Anne Bogart and Tina Lindau’s “Viewpoints” technique), as well as several other theoretical-practical tools of contemporary collaborative creation, to develop individual and/or collective performative propositions between participants, fueling the group’s research and artistic processes.
In this process, LABo also serves as a long-standing support network for the creators who participate in its workshops, offering its members a space to develop their methodological research, seek artistic autonomy, develop their authorship and find mutual assistance for carrying out projects, in addition to contributing to the maintenance of affective ties through collective coexistence.
Since 2017, Gabriel Abreu has been a member of LABo Contínuo, LABo’s resident group. In recent years, the group has advanced the collective research and developed several projects in the different partner spaces it has occupied over the years, including gatherings for training and improvisation open to the public, a site-specific residency in the machine room of a hotel in Copacabana and an online scene festival during the COVID pandemic.
For the first time in 2023, the group inaugurated its own space, Base LABo, housed in a studio in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Currently, LABo’s resident group is in rehearsals for a new play, written by Gabriel Abreu and Maíra Motta and directed by Patrick Sampaio and Bruno Tasca.
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