Bruna Longo is an actress, playwright, producer, movement researcher, movement director and educator. She holds a BA in Cinema from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado and a MA in Movement Studies from the University of London with extensive experience as an actress and movement specialist in Brazil, Europe and the United States. She collaborated with the Danish company Odin Teatret, directed by Eugenio Barba, from 2006 to 2010, and was a member of Cia. da Revista, from São Paulo, from 2010 to 2016. Deviser, with Daniela Flor, of the physical theater piece Cada Qual no Seu Barril, nominated as best actress at the 2011 FEMSA Award. Creator of the solo performance Creature, An Autopsy, a friction between the life of Mary Shelley and her romance Frankenstein, nominated as best actress at the Aplauso Brasil 2019 Award.
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Graduated from Teatro-escola Célia Helena, in her career as an actress and movement researcher Bruna Longo participated in training sessions with several theatre masters in the most diverse techniques and theatrical traditions, including: Eugenio Barba, Julia Varley, Tage Larsen, Torgeir Wethal, Jan Ferslev, Augusto Omulú and Roberta Carreri, from Odin Teatret (Denmark). Corporeal Mime with Luis Louis, Thomas Leabhart (USA) and Nadja Turenko (Brazil). Circus techniques (acrobalance and aerial) with Cia. Cênica Nau de Ícaros, Alex Marinho, Rúbia Neiva, Gustavo Carvalho, Rodrigo Matheus, Cia. Circo Minimum, Elza Wolf and Oz Academia Aérea de Circo. Member of Núcleo Experimenal do SESI, having worked with Isabel Setti (EAD-SP), Tica Lemos, Lu Favoretto and Cristiane Paoli Quito (Estúdio Nova Dança), Berta Zemel, Denise Weinberg (Grupo TAPA), Juliana Carneiro da Cunha (Théatre du Soleil - France) and Carlos Simioni (LUME). Stage Combat, with Luis Louis. Dance-theater with Denise Namura (À Fleur de Peau – France). British Historical Dances, with Ian Brenner (London, United Kingdom). Butoh with Tadashi Endo (Germany). Commedia Dell´Arte with Maestro Antonio Fava (Italy). Stage Combat - Single Sword with Colleen Kelly (USA). Gambuh technique, Balinese dance, with Cristina Wistari Formaggia and I Wayan Bawa from Gambuh Pura Desa Ensemble (Denmark). Noh Theater with Japanese master Akira Matsui (Denmark). Techniques developed by Tadashi Suzuki, with Anna Wolf (Denmark). Vsevolod Meyerhold’s Biomechanics, with Gennadi Bogdanov at Centro Internazionale Studi di Biomeccanica Teatrali (Perugia, Italy). Klauss Vianna Technique with Neide Neves (São Paulo). Motor Coordination Technique developed by M. M. Bèziers, with Lu Favoretto (São Paulo). Alexander Technique, with Karen Wentworth from the Alexander Technique School in London (São Paulo). Kung Fu practitioner, Choy Lay Fut style, since 2014, at the Hung Sing Kung Fu Academy.
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