BOCA ABISSAL (Balé da Cidade de São Paulo | Rafaela Sahyoun)
BOCA ABISSAL is a contemporary dance work by Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, choreographed by Rafaela Sahyoun. The piece premiered in May 2025 at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, achieving strong public and critical recognition, and later consolidated its international presence through a tour in France, including a season at the renowned Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.
The original soundtrack was composed and produced by Yantó and developed in close dialogue with the choreographic process. Built from electronic beats, synthesizers, vocal textures, and acoustic percussion, the music articulates multiple Brazilian rhythmic matrices, forming a living sonic organism that sustains and expands the dramaturgy of the work. In 2025, the soundtrack was released as an album, extending the stage experience into an autonomous musical work.
Fôlego (Balé da Cidade de São Paulo | Rafaela Sahyoun)
Fôlego is a contemporary dance work by Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, choreographed by Rafaela Sahyoun. Originally created in 2022 for the 40th anniversary of Centro Cultural São Paulo, it was revisited in 2023 at Theatro Municipal. In 2025, for performances at Theatro Municipal and Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), the work featured a revised soundtrack by Yantó.
The dramaturgy explores the body as a pulsating force—a continuous negotiation of desires and distances that reflects the ever-evolving condition of individuals as social beings.
The musical dimension is a hybrid landscape: the soundtrack includes pieces by the Swedish project The Field (by Axel Willner) and original compositions by Yantó, who also crafted the audio production in close alignment with the work's kinetic logic.
CRUSH (ELETRO-RAIA | Rafaela Sahyoun)
Choreographed by Rafaela Sahyoun, CRUSH is a choreographic friction that persists at the edge of failure. Produced by the ELETRO-RAIA collective, the performance plunges artists Inês Galrão and Gustavo Cabral into a labyrinth of gestures etched into muscular memory, seeking to destabilize the patterns of domesticated desire.
The dramaturgy emerges from glitch and exhaustion as an active refusal of social expectations, reclaiming the body’s agency to reimagine alliances and affections through a queer lens.
The soundtrack, by Yantó, intensifies this sensory experience. Built from electronic beats, synthesizers, and the subversive manipulation of audio from pornographic films, the music processes organic noise into an abstract soundscape. This hybrid territory creates a living organism that pulses in sync with the vulnerability and strength of the bodies onstage.