Encantado by Lia Rodrigues: a contemporary dance show at the Jardin des Tuileries

With Encantado, presented from July 15 to 17, 2025 at the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Festival Paris l'été, Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues continues her committed creative work, in which dance becomes a space of poetic resistance. In Brazil, the term "encantado", which means "enchanted" in Portuguese, refers to spiritual entities from Afro-American traditions, perceived as invisible forces that inhabit the world.

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Bringing together eleven performers in a lively, collective choreographic composition, Lia Rodrigues explores ways of transforming our fears into gestures, our thoughts into landscapes, our bodies into rhythms. The show explores the links between the individual and the collective, the magical and the political, in a body composition as grounded as it is sensitive. In this version, the company welcomes a number of new faces selected following a wide-ranging call for applications in Brazil.

This show is aimed at audiences interested in committed and sensitive choreographic proposals, in a form accessible from adolescence. Audiences looking for a dance language connected to contemporary issues - be they social, environmental or spiritual - will find it a strong resonant ground. Those who prefer more traditional narrative or aesthetic forms, however, may be less receptive to this performative approach.

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Presented outdoors in the evening, Encantado is also a collective experience in an exceptional heritage setting. The piece continues Lia Rodrigues ' work on reinventing human bonds through the body, breath and the living.

This article is based on publicly available information and is not based on direct experience of the show.

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