sexta-feira, 1 de junho de 2012

Felipe Rocha

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Actor, writer and director, Felipe Rocha was born in Paris in 1972. He has been living in Brazil since 1978 and holds a degree in Performing Arts from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio).

His background includes internships, workshops, residencies and performances with artists such as Tim Crouch, Ant Hampton, Jerome Bel, Thomas Lehmen, Olga Mesa, Juan Domingues, Robert Pacitti and Vera Mantero, among others.

Felipe was one of the 30 artist participating at “Rio Occupation London” project, based at Battersea Arts Center, in London in July’ 2012.

Since 1986 he has been working with renowned theater directors in Rio de Janeiro. In 2002, he began working with director Enrique Diaz, creating shows like "Rehearsal.Hamet" which received an award for Best Foreign Play from the French Association of Theatre Critics. He also collaborates with Portuguese artist Tiago Rodrigues, with whom he created 3 plays in 2009 and one in 2012 in Lisbon.

Co-director of the theatre group Foguetes Maravilha, with which he performs his plays, the latest being "Ninguém Falou que Seria Fácilawarded the main theatre prizes in Rio this year: Shell, Questão de Crítica and Theatre Producers Association of Rio, for best dramaturgy.

He has performed at theatre festivals, such as "Festival d'Automne à Paris", "Kunsten Festival des Arts" in Brussels, Wienner Festwochen (Vienna), "Spring Arts Festival" in Shizuoka (Japan), "Festival Chekhov" in Moscow, "Under the Radar" in New York, "El Grec", in Barcelona,"Transamériques" in Montreal, "Buenos Aires Theatre Festival" and "Alkantara" in Lisbon, among many others.

He also works as a performer in film and contemporary dance. And he is a musician, award-winning film composer and trumpeter, singer and artistic director of the musical group Brasov.

As video director, his most recent works are the short film "Maybe in Lisbon", the music video "Cine Privê" by Domenico Lancelotti, and "Samba do Blackberry", by band Tono.

Watch English subtitled creations of Felipe Rocha:


Maybe In Lisbon
(short film) screenwriter/ director/ actor. Click Here


Nobody Said It was gonna be easy
(Theater) writer/ codirector/ actor. Click Here







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