TRIAD TOUR SÃO BENTO traverses a region in downtown São Paulo that houses important historical artifact. The participants, equipped with headphones, are conducted through what once was, in the beginning of the XX century, the financial, commercial and social district of the city. Through in-off storytelling, the tour takes a trip in time, aiming to provoke reflections about body and city, noise and silence, past and present.

The real-fictional narrative axis is established around the Martinelli building, a ‘paulistano’ symbol that in 1929 was the first skyscraper in Latin America. During the construction of said building, the population feared its fall, raising questions about the meaning of the verticalization of the city. From its peak, with parties that gathered the city’s social elite, to its decline in the 1970’s when, as a reflection of the disinvestment in the downtown area, became a vertical slum. Nowadays, the Martinelli undergoes a hygienist process, similar to other criminal evictions happening in the city.

Technical Sheet
General Coordination: Adriana Macul and Mariana Vaz 
Creation (2011): Adriana Macul, Flávia Melman, Larissa Salgado, Mariana Vaz and Natalia Mallo, in collaboration with Laura Bruno
Script Final version (2012): Adriana Macul and Mariana Vaz, in collaboration with Larissa Salgado
Sound Edit: Natalia Mallo
Storytelling: Flávia Melman and Larissa Salgado
Photos: Janice D’Ávila e TRÍADE

Awards and Funding
2011 – Award Funarte Klauss Vianna de Dança 
2010 – ProAC 25 – Promoção do Acesso à Cultura.
2010 – Fomento à Dança para a cidade de São Paulo (9th edition)

Circulation
2016 – Treinamento Programadores Dança GEAC, SescSP – São Paulo, Brasil – 4/ago
2016 – Semana contra a violência ao idoso, SescSP – São Paulo, Brasil – 15 a 22/jun
2014 – GIRA – Grupos Independentes de Rua – São Paulo, Brasil – 5/nov
2013 – Treinamento – Programadores Turismo, SescSP – São Paulo, Brasil – 10/ago
2012 – Temporada – São Paulo, Brasil – 17/abr a 18/mai
2011 – Temporada – São Paulo, Brasil – 14/jun a 8/jul

Technical Necessities
Out of Catalog