Photo: Camile BlakePuff explores the concept of “disguise” as a device for transmitting silenced cultures by concealing techniques, messages, traditions, or ancestral knowledge.
The research evokes illusions and suggests that something is being deliberately hidden from view. Puff — a light breath — also carries the idea of something that disappears as if by magic.
This solo performance marks a continuation of the long-standing collaboration between Alice Ripoll and Hiltinho Fantástico, who have been working together for the past seven years within the SUAVE and REC dance companies. Both collectives develop a hybrid language that merges contemporary dance with Brazilian urban forms. The two artists have collaborated in acclaimed works such as Cria, Lavagem, aCORdo, and Zona Franca, which have toured major festivals and theaters around the world.
In the words of the acclaimed Japanese photographer Lieko Shiga:
The research evokes illusions and suggests that something is being deliberately hidden from view. Puff — a light breath — also carries the idea of something that disappears as if by magic.
This solo performance marks a continuation of the long-standing collaboration between Alice Ripoll and Hiltinho Fantástico, who have been working together for the past seven years within the SUAVE and REC dance companies. Both collectives develop a hybrid language that merges contemporary dance with Brazilian urban forms. The two artists have collaborated in acclaimed works such as Cria, Lavagem, aCORdo, and Zona Franca, which have toured major festivals and theaters around the world.
In the words of the acclaimed Japanese photographer Lieko Shiga:
“From the moment he suddenly appeared before the audience like a trickster, and began dancing as if he were drunk, the atmosphere and space-time instantly became his. His feet barely touched the floor, and he was always floating in the air. It was as if his body had been taken over by someone (a spirit? a demon?), and he couldn't stop dancing. Time - past, present and future - does not exist in his body, and he cannot stop jumping around, intoxicated by the world of spirits. After that, it changes into a very elegant dance that seems to be a mix of various South American cultures. It was a dance that seemed to express the fragility of the human spirit, anger, sadness, joy, the joy of sexuality that transcends the male and female genders, animals, birds, fish, ghosts... all of these things seemed to be running through his body. For me, as an audience member, the afterimages of each moment of the dance remained in my eyes, and the layers of these afterimages overlapped to create a landscape that I had never seen before”.
Photo: Andy Katlin
Director
Alice Ripoll
Dancer
Hiltinho Fantástico
Director's assistant
Alan Ferreira / Thais Peixoto
Production Director
Joana D’ Aguiar
Production
Thais Peixoto / Isabela Pixoto
Light designer
Tomas Ribas
Set designer
Alice Ripoll / Thais Peixoto
Costume
Alice Ripoll / Thais Peixoto
Soundtrack
Alice Ripoll / Mimosa
Alice Ripoll
Dancer
Hiltinho Fantástico
Director's assistant
Alan Ferreira / Thais Peixoto
Production Director
Joana D’ Aguiar
Production
Thais Peixoto / Isabela Pixoto
Light designer
Tomas Ribas
Set designer
Alice Ripoll / Thais Peixoto
Costume
Alice Ripoll / Thais Peixoto
Soundtrack
Alice Ripoll / Mimosa
International division
ART HAPPENS
Co production
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Festival Actoral and Câmbio
Dates 2026
Puff
20.02.2026
Paris (fr)
Puff
21.02.2026
Paris (fr)
Puff
13.03.2026
São Paulo (br)
FAROFA
Puff
13.05.2026
London (gb)
Sadler's Wells
Puff
14.05.2026
London (gb)
Sadler's Wells
Puff
15.05.2026
Dublin (ie)
Dublin Dance Festival
Puff
16.05.2026
Dublin (ie)
Dublin Dance Festival
20.02.2026
Paris (fr)
| Festival Everybody / Le Carreau du Temple |
Puff
21.02.2026
Paris (fr)
| Festival Everybody / Le Carreau du Temple |
Puff
13.03.2026
São Paulo (br)
FAROFA
Puff
13.05.2026
London (gb)
Sadler's Wells
Puff
14.05.2026
London (gb)
Sadler's Wells
Puff
15.05.2026
Dublin (ie)
Dublin Dance Festival
Puff
16.05.2026
Dublin (ie)
Dublin Dance Festival