ARTISTIC CREATIONS/CHOREOGRAPHS



THINGS THAT MATTER

Explores the overwhelming and suffocating feeling of compulsive hoarding and the struggle to get rid of useless objects linked to memories and deep attachment. 

CREATIVE TEAM:
Creation/performance: Hellen Russo
    Kinshin Riders  (Sound Design)      
      Janette Mcginty (Dramaturg)        
Marnie Orr  (Design)

Photo: Alex Russo

PERFORMANCES:
600 Seconds - Sunner Nights - Blue Room Theatre
10/02 and 12/02 - 7PM
FRINGE WORLD Festival 2015 - Perth WA

 KISS Club - Centre Of Interdisciplinary Arts - Perth WA
17/04/2015 - 7:30PM





FRAGMENTATION 1.2
PROXIMITY FESTIVAL

FRINGE WORLD festival 2012 -  Blue Room Theatre 
Perth - WA

Photo taken by Ashley de Praser


Syncope
Creation and Performance by Hellen Russo

Performances:
SHORT CUTS - Strut Dance 29/10 and 31/10/2010
FRINGE WORLD Festival - Perth WA

Photo: Christophe Canato

Photo: Christophe Canato

Photo: Christophe Canato

Photo: Christophe Canato

Photo: Christophe Canato

Photo: Christophe Canato




Fool Asleep
Presented by Sleepers Project


                

Performances:
    FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL Perth WA
 The Treasury Mess Hall: cnr Barrack St and St George’s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia
 8-9 February 2012, 9pm
STRUTATHON 
presented by Strut Dance at PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts)



                                                                     
Transfiguration 


Hellen Russo has developed this mid-length solo that relates movement and visual arts, based on "The Hallucinogen Toreador" painting by Salvador Dalí. This performance explores the duality of surreal images. Illusion and dichotomies between death and live.

Composed and Interpreted: Hellen Russo
Mentors: Carlos Martins and Sílvia Gerald
Light Design: Hellen Russo and Alexandre de Silvio
Sound: Hellen Russo and Luis Henrique Xavier
Costume: Cida Alvarenga

Thanks: Andre Bol, Lenira Rengel, Ana Terra, Isabel Marques, Denise da Conceição, Tania Marcondes, Marcos Batisttuzi and Anhembi - Morumbi University.


Photo: Arnaldo Torres

Lilith Journey 


This mid-length solo includes contemporary music by Tatiana Catanzaro, object investigation and study of myth.  This solo is the relationship between the goddess Yami Oxorongá, this spiritual African -Brazilian culture as a fearsome orixá, and its relationship with the woman who tempted Adam, referring to the Jewish myth of Lilith, first wife before Eve.

Creation and Composition: Hellen Russo
Original Music: Tatiana Catanzaro
Lightning Design: Alexandre de Silvio
Thanks: MAC Sao Paulo, Denise da Conceicao, Cleia Placido, Marcos Batisttuzi, Carlos Martins and Cristina Salmistraro.

 
Photo: Arnaldo Torres





Photo: Arnaldo Torres


 Photographies: Arnaldo Torres



TIME LINE

Creation and Research: Hellen Russo, Carmem Moraes and Luis Henrique Xavier.

                                Photo: Leandro                                                                                       Photo: Leandro


Feito Licor de Tulipas 

 2004/2005 Gradisca dance company based on Frida’s Cahlo life and death.

Choreography and Direction: Hellen Russo and Barbara Eliask Performance: Hellen Russo, Barbara Eliask and Bruna Dias  
Sound: Tatiana Catanzaro 
Lightning Design: Alexandre de Silvio and Hellen Russo

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                             Photo: Arnaldo Torres



          Photo: Arnaldo Torres

In Situ


July, 2000 
Created and performed by Hellen Russo, Bebel de Barros, Gisele Penafiere and Barbara Eliaski
Live music and percussionist : Celso Nascimento 
mentor: Silvia Geraldi 

This work was created through the Choreographic Laboratory at Universidade Anhenbi-Morumbi, dance and movement course.
Performances: Bienal de danca de Santos SP/BR and Universidade Anhembi-Morumbi's amphitheatre.