In 1993 was born in the dancehalls of a club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, called Casa do Minho, where Deborah taught, the embryo of what would be the Deborah Colker Dance Company. She debuted in the Dance Panorama of Rio and in 1994 her Company debuted at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro at the Globo in Movement Festival, in a double program with Momix Dance Group.
In 1995, thanks to their work’s repercussion, the Company earned an exclusive official sponsorship from the Brazil state oil company Petrobras - which has allowed her to take off on soaring flights of creation and make a solid name for herself in the world dance panorama.
Being able to develop work in headquarters of their own, the Company has been hard at work building new languages that are startling in their insertion, in dance, of unheard-of scenic elements and thus assert her contemporaneity, mixing dance technique with the everyday themes her audiences relate to.
Over the years, the company has staged performances in France, Germany, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Argentina, Canada, United States, Holland, Singapore, New Zealand, Macao and Ireland, earning the following awards:
O GLOBO Newspaper -
The best of 1995, dance category- for the production “VELOX”
JORNAL DO BRASIL Newspaper -
The best of 1995, dance category - “VELOX”
O GLOBO Newspaper -
Best dance production in 1997 - “ROTA”
BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE AWARD -
Mambembe Trophy, 1997 - “ROTA”
JORNAL DO BRASIL Newspaper -
Best dance production in 1999 - “CASA”
RIO DANÇA AWARD 1999
Best costumes, art design and scenography, and lighting - “CASA”
LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARDS 2001 (Great Britain) - Spectacle Choreography - “MIX”
The productions:
VULCÃO - (Volcano, 1994)
VELOX - (1995)
MIX - (1996) by commission of the Lyon Dance Biennale
ROTA - (Route, 1997)
CASA - (House, 1999)
4 POR 4 - (4-by-4, 2002)
NÓ - (Knot, 2005) this show had its premiere in Wolfsburg, Germany, in partnership with the Autostadt.
DÍNAMO - (2006)
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