Centro Cultural São Paulo_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Curatorial profile

The Centro Cultural São Paulo architecture itself already provides the multidisciplinarity to the events and the Curatorship and Programming of Centro Cultural São Paulo does not only seek to mix the fields it composes but also the segments of each field.
Its diverse programming offered free or at popular prices, attracts different classes of the population, making of the Centro Cultural São Paulo one of the most democratic cultural spaces of the city. In 2009, it received more than 819 users, number of visits comparable to the biggest museums and cultural centers of the world.

Division of Curatorship and Programming

The Division of Curatorship and Programming (DCP) is composed by five artistic areas and one interdisciplinary curatorship. Its programming is aimed to intensify the institutional guidelines like the accessibility programs (in the physical space, in the programming and in the virtual space http://www.centrocultural.sp.gov.br/acessibilidade) and programs of collaborative network, like the inauguration of Anilla Cultural, a Spanish-American network of cultural equipment in different countries. The curatorial axis Art - City - Culture, implanted in a new form for the biennium 2010/2011, establishes a conceptual vein and a continuous planning for the CCSP curatorships, to the detriment of fragmentary programming.

Interdisciplinary Curatorship

It invests on the risks of research and experimentation, valuing integrated artistic processes. Coordinates projects carried out in collaboration with other curatorships that contemplate various artistic areas, comprising documentation and collection. Meeting the wish of the Institution to encourage the interdisciplinarity, this Curatorship offers a ground so that the interdisciplinary processes of research and creation can be fertilized and developed, also concerned with the documentation and the debate about the possible relations and contaminations among the artistic languages. Thus it expects to contribute for the creation of spaces that work as laboratories, in the practical and theoretical scope and promote the artistic exchange and the relation among artists, public and institution.

Dance Curatorship

It proposes projects that seek the integration among the diffusion, creation, research, teaching and reflection in dance.
This year of 2010, it inaugurates a new phase, from the cultural axis Dança Expandida [Expanded Dance], that establishes a way of operation and a proposal guidance basis in this language, motivating and encouraging interrelated actions, different formats, interdisciplinary proposals and meeting and dialogic spaces.
Among the main projects for this year are the Semanas de Dança -Diálogos [Weeks of Dance - Dialogues], 2nd Edition of the Novos Coreógrafos - Novas Criações: Site Specific [New Choreographers - New Creations: Site Specific] and the launch of Entre Todas as Coisas [Among All the Things]/ and Dança Expandida [Expanded Dance], programs that will initiate this curatorial proposal.
The proposal also enlarges its reach to partnerships with other curatorships and institutions, like the case of Seminário Verbo Conjugado [Conjugated Verb Workshop], of Zona de Risco, of EI! Encontro de Improvisação, of Plataforma da Dança and of Entorno - Encontro Latino-Americano de Dança Contemporânea [Spanish-American Contemporary Dance Meeting], to mention some examples.

Audiovisual Curatorship

It organizes and thinks the audiovisual through its most contemporary manifestations, contrasted and related to the Audiovisual development since its roots; working with new and renowned artists, with the national and international cinematography, bringing to Centro Cultural, through partnerships with other countries, a new and representative audiovisual production, promoting also the Brazilian audiovisual in international exchanges.
Lately, the audiovisual programming has been mixed more and more with other areas of Centro Cultural São Paulo, also showing works of new directors educated by a hybrid audiovisual culture, contributing for the formation of a new generation of artists without prejudice of formats and prepared to an audiovisual culture rich in possibilities.

Theater Curatorship

The theater programming is established with the idea of stimulating the production of experimental characteristics, involving the research of theatrical language for children, youth and adults. Several theatrical groups, from the most important theater of São Paulo, had this stimulation in the beginning of their path and with it they have consolidated their work. However, not only groups of the city, but from all over the country and other countries, were and have been welcomed in the Centro Cultural São Paulo spaces.
Besides the normal programming, the theater curatorship develops projects that propitiate the debate and reflection about contemporary theater aspects, by means of seminars, dramatic readings, workshops or more comprehensive projects.

Music Curatorship

It has its space at Centro Cultural São Paulo not only at the concert and show rooms, but also in Web-Radio, in the Paradas Sonoras [Sound Stops] and on its material shape as disks, books and scores in the collections of Oneyda Alvarenga Discotheque.
In relation to the live music programming the Music Curatorship always seek integration between the music collection and the music presentations.
The music programming basically seeks to serve the diverse publics: from the popular to the erudite, passing by the contemporary music.

Visual Arts Curatorship

It keep activities aimed to the disclosure of the contemporary art in the city, carrying out regularly exhibitions, publications and debates, but also practical and theoretical courses in the area, in partnership with the Department of Cultural and Educational Actions (DACE) of the institution. Such program is established in at least three fronts: with the incentive to the recent artistic production, of artists beginning their professional careers and of names fixed in the art media in Brazil and abroad; when propagating the collection and defending a policy of acquisitions of the City Art Collection, kept at the Centro Cultural São Paulo and constituted of reference works of Brazilian modern and contemporary art; and by means of exchange with agencies of cultural representation of other countries.

Division of Educational Action

The Division of Cultural and Educational Action acts to bring together the contemporary cultural production public, stimulating the exchange of acquaintance. Its objective is also to increase the public and, above all to make them to consider in a critical way, not only the Centro Cultural São Paulo, but also the city and the culture.
The division is divided in two main areas: the Mediation and the Workshops area. Moreover, it develops a series of other projects that are used to be transdisciplinary and with which it works with the maximum of partnerships.

Zona de Risco Project

A programming line that includes interdisciplinary creation and artistic residency projects. The Zona de Risco project was created in 2009 aiming to conceive, in the Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra of Centro Cultural São Paulo, a laboratory of creation and presentation of new artistic manifestations. A place to experiment and research languages that make possible and risk the interaction among the arts, enlarging the options of activities usually presented in that place.

The second edition named Zona de Risco - Derivas is presented as a different proposal, having as objective of research the Centro Cultural São Paulo. The process is established or developed from a series of activities-programs that involve the CCSP space and the human relations established there. The city as mediator between art and culture is understood in the scope of the relations between the people who visit the Centro Cultural São Paulo with the most different purposes: to study, date, watch presentations, read, play chess, dance or simply to pass the time.

Projeto Semanas de Dança - diálogos [Weeks of Dance Project - dialogues]

A project of dance seasons, articulate with collaborative actions that challenges the groups and artists to create meeting spaces and artistic exchanges among themselves and the institution. During eight weeks, from Wednesday to Sunday, companies and renowned professionals take turns with new names of dance setting a new atmosphere for the project Semanas de Dança [Weeks of Dance], Centro Cultural São Paulo traditional program. The rooms Jardel Fillho, Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes and Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra have hosted 25 different shows, 1 choreographic installation during the whole season, 15 dialogue actions (including workshops, interventions, lectures and other shapes and collective proposals), in a total of exact 160 presentations, involving around 450 professionals, between production and artists, in a programming that totalized 225 hours of dance proposals.

Paradas em Movimento [Moving Stops]

Aiming to create a decentralized platform for the exhibition of audiovisual works, ten points of multimedia exhibition were installed strategically in places of great public abundance. Each one of these points is composed by a 32'' LCD monitor, a sound dome (directed sound emission equipment) and a support to place the viewer. This furniture includes, also, a display to shelter the informative graphic material related to each exhibition.

On these supports, audiovisual works related to the various culture areas will be displayed contemplated by the Centro Cultural São Paulo programming: arts, cinema, dance, literature, music and theater. The Centro Cultural receives each day around 2 thousand visitors, being the majority of them users of the libraries or visitors checking events of a specific area of concert rooms or exhibitions spaces programming. Many of the times, these users do not have the opportunity to see the totality of the programming offered by the institution. When creating a decentralized and independent platform of the places essentially for exhibition, an essential approximation among the public, the discussions and the contemporary cultural productions is encouraged.

The project Paradas em Movimento [Moving Stops] is a way to take to the passage places of Centro Cultural an excellency programming in contemporary works that address present relevance contents using audiovisual support: cinema, documentary, musical video clips, video art, video dance, etc.

Paradas Sonoras [Sound Stops]

This project aims to make the Oneyda Alvarenga Discotheque collection more accessible to the public, taking into account the increasing interest of experts and visitors to its collection.

By means of a decentralized platform it was created, in different points of Centro Cultural, a new circuit of audition to the diverse material of the Discotheque. These points are divided in four stations with different furniture and equipment shapes, each for a specific need: Research station, LP audition, double audition and collective audition.

It is important to stress that only one part of the Discotheque collection is digitalized. Of a total of 70 thousand disks, around 35 thousand phonograms have already been computerized and, besides being part of the digital collection that will be gradually inserted in the Paradas Sonoras [Sound Stops], they will contribute to the original material conservation, mainly the rare works.

With the support of Lua Shows, commemorative events of the 100 years of Ataulfo Alves, one of the most respected Brazilian songwriter. Author of true Brazilian popular music classics, Ataulfo had his songs recorded by great musicians, in a mix of renovation and tradition. "Que saudade da Amélia", "Laranja madura", "Meus tempos de criança" and so many others are reference of the best production of the Brazilian popular singer.

To homage this great songwriter, Centro Cultural São Paulo presented six concerts on the renovation and tradition line, on which one renowned artist shares the stage with artists of the new generation under the aegis of quality and appreciation of Brazilian music and musicians.

Mostra Paulista de Dramaturgia Nordestina [São Paulo Exhibition of Brazilian Northeast Dramaturgy]

The Centro Cultural São Paulo and the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo have brought a series of free activities related to the Brazilian northeast dramaturgy production, including theatrical openings, dramatic readings and work demonstrations. The Centro Cultural São Paulo also received the 6ª Semana do Teatro Nordestino [6th Brazilian Northeast Theater Week] (for the first time carried out outside Natal - RN) gathering dramaturgists from São Paulo and the Northeast in debates tables and book launches.

The four plays that were in theaters on the Exhibition homage the dramaturgist and researcher from Alagoas, Altimar Pimentel. One of the presentations - Como nasce um cabra da peste - is of his authorship and the other three were selected by representatives and the variety of the northeastern theatrical production.

The Exhibition was sponsored by Banco do Brasil, by means of the Rouanet Law, with the support of the Associação Amigos do Centro Cultural São Paulo [Centro Cultural São Paulo Friends Association] and the Associação dos Dramaturgos do Nordeste [Brazilian Northeastern Dramaturgists Association].

Novos coreógrafos - Novas criações: Site Specific (NC-NC:SS) [New choreographer - New creations: Site Specific]

Emerged with new proposals of curatorial axis of the Centro Cultural, which value the interdisciplinarity, the different shapes and a more close and coherent relation with the architecture and history of the institution. Six new choreographic works, specially conceived for the Centro Cultural spaces, were selected by bid.

Camargo Guarnieri Project

The project Camargo Guarnieri 3 concertos para violino e a Missão highlights the importance of the songwriter Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993) for the Brazilian classical music and reflects his involvement with the proposals of the Department of Culture, created by Mário de Andrade. Contemplated by the Programa Cultural Petrobras 2007 - Memória das Artes [Petrobras Cultural Program 2007 - Memories of Arts] the project shows the acting of the musician in the Municipal Public Discotheque, today Oneyda Alvarenga Discotheque of the Centro Cultural São Paulo, and the Coral Paulistano do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo [São Paulo Municipal Theater Choir].

A box with a DVD, a CD-ROM and a graphic insert was produced. The DVD brings the recording of Three concerts for violin and orchestra and one documentary about the musician's life. The film, entitled Notas soltas sobre um homem só was produced under the coordination of Francisco Coelho, curator of music of CCSP, and was selected for the Rio Festival. The exhibition took place on 27/9, at Cine Odeon (Rio de Janeiro-RJ).

The CD-Rom has sound files of the Acervo Histórico da Discoteca Pública Municipal [History Collection of Municipal Public Discotheque], documents digitalized of the Folkloric Research Mission, all the edited scores of the recorded concerts, researches, besides the audio testimony of the songwriter himself.

International Nova Ágora for the contemporary cultural action

It is a network of co-creation, collaboration and participation that has as objective create bonds between Latin America and Europe in the contemporary cultural field of action from the intensive use of Information and Communication Technology and of Internet 2.

The project is articulated with the collective and innovative effort which explores, generates and deposit new forms of action and knowledge in network that maximize to the people, groups, communities and countries the access to local and international experiments on the most diverse genres and shapes.

Sound art, cinema, dance, visual art, performance, multimedia, net art, theater, literature, video art, exhibitions, festivals and concerts, are some of the multiple initiatives that have promoted Anilla, giving a special space to debate, investigation and experimentation through interactive conferences, development of media libraries and multimedia laboratories.

The objectives of Anilla Cultural Latino Americana - Europe are:
- The impulse of co-creation and of content and initiatives exchange between Latin American and European equipment.
- The investigation, experimentation and innovation in the cultural scope.
- The promotion of Information and Communication Technology use in the cultural activities management.

Annual Program of Exhibitions of Centro Cultural São Paulo

For more than 20 years it selects and presents artists studying or the ones that just arrived in the artistic circuit of the country, at the same time as offers them the opportunity of contact and dialogue with artists whose works are highlighted among the present main ones and with a group of reviewers gathered by the institution.

Sequence of photographs exhibitions

Carried out for almost 10 years in the Flavio de Carvalho pavement of the institution headquarters has as objective to support the artists and thinkers research around this language.