This is a personal site aimed at sharing my discoveries in pursuing Dende Collective, current project THE MACUNAÍMA CYCLE, which aims adapting to the stage the Brazilian novel Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade. I am writing this primarily to share some of my thoughts with other artists that I am working with at the moment: Montse Gili (also in Dende Collective), Noel Greig who we have been in conversations with and we would like to involve as a writer/ dramaturg in the project and Samuel Guimarães, a Brazilian visual artist who will be responsible for the visual side of the project (he lives in Brazil). We aim at presenting the show in the Autumn 2008 in London. This site is nevertheless open to anyone who would like to know how Dende makes work and how my thoughts, doubts, ideas, etc... evolve in the genesis of MACUNAíMA.

I started the work on this site just prior to R&D5 @ Oval House Theatre’s First Bites Season (Dec 3rd to 8th 2007).

Dende Collective is a theatre company based in London. If you want to know more about us, visit our site by clicking on the hyperlink above.

Dende Collective’s MACUNAÍMA CYCLE is a co-commission of South Hill Park, Bracknel and has been developed in association with Festival Encuentro Latino 2006, Little Angel Theatre’s  Incubate Season, Oval House Theatre’s First Bites Season and Lyric Hammersmith, with the support of the Arts Council England.