Ricardo Viviani

Dancer, Choreographer, Oral Historian

About

Ricardo Viviani

choreographer, director and performer

ricardo portrait 2007Ricardo Viviani is a director and choreographer based in Wuppertal, Germany. He was born in São Paulo in 1960, studied Ballet at the Balé Stagium, Joffrey Ballet School NYC and was on scholarship programs at various dance institutions in Brazil and USA. He danced as a soloist for the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, Cisne Negro, Manuel Alum Dance Company and Nationaltheater Weimar, performed in the musicals ‚A Chorus Line’ and ‚Oh! Calcutta!’ on Broadway and international tours. As a choreographer he created for the independent theater and dance scene of São Paulo, New York and Cologne. For the past 10 years he’s been concentrating in the relationship between dance, voice and theater; creating choreography for opera and musical in the theater companies of Weimar, Osnabrück, Heilbronn and Hagen; including performing in the CD recording of Hans Werner Henze’s ‚Das Wundertheater’ and the staging of ‚Gegen die Wand’ by Ludger Vollmer. Continue reading “About”