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Helena Bittencourt and Goos Meeuwsen are directors, writers , actors and clowns. They wrote and act in the movies “Samen” (Brasil), Show (NL) and Kit-Chen (NL) and debut their first clown acts together as main characters in Cirque Bouffon (France/ Germany), in the show Solvo. Later, in 2013, they were also main characters in Nandu, from the same company. Also in 2012, they created the performance 30 Min To Shine, played in the Doetinchem Street Art Festival (The Netherlands). One year later, in collaboration with the Orchestra Ensemble L ‘Autre Monde and invited by the Academy of Art and Performance of Frankfurt (Germany) they wrote, directed and performed the theatre- musical concert Playing for Eurydice and they were cast of Philodendrus, a contemporary dance creation of the coreographer Cristina Moura (Brazil). In 2014 they direct and performed the comic play Crocodile (Brazil), with the Colective Oh! Céus! as they both worked as assistent directors in the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics and at the Opening Ceremony of the Paraolympics in Sochi, Russia, both ceremonies directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca.
In the same year, they also created and performed the show Mar Aberto, winner of the prize Fomento, gaven by the city of Rio de Janeiro. The open air play was inspired by the novel The Old Man And The Sea of Ernest Hemingway. The musical, clown, circus and theatre performance took place in a giant piano of 7 meters in the center of the city.
With Touchstones Arnhem (Netherlands) and in collaboration with local designers, volunteers, jazz musicians and acrobats from different nationalities, they wrote, created, played and directed Fashionata, Cirque de la mode at the Eusebius church in 2014 and in the consecutive years, the shows Stroom, Durf, Hoop, Bloes and VerWarMe respectively in 2015, 2016, 2017,2018 and 2019 .The five creations took place in the ASM Harbor in Arnhem, The Netherlands, and were part of the Arnhem Fashion Festival.The performances reached every year an audience of around five thousand people.
In 2014, invited by the Compagnia Finzi Pasca, they protagonize the duo’s theater and clown show Bianco su Bianco, written and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, and in co-
production with the Company (Ticino, Suisse). Since its premiere, the show has been touring in many cities from different countries. Among them many cities in Suisse, France, Italy, Spain, Pays Vasque, Russia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, Romania, Denmark, Finland and Mexico. On the moment Bianco su Bianco is still touring. In 2016, Goos and Helena wrote and direct the New Circus performance Scintilla invited by the company Cirqu’en Choc and in collaboration and sponsored by Amnesty International. Scintilla is a show about the Human Rights and had its premiere in Sion, Zwitserland.
Directly after, they create and performed the comedy and visual performance show HumanActs, in collaboration with the Kempenear Advocaten and Touchtones Arnhem. The show was played in the Netherlands, at the Theater de Leo and City Theatre (Arnhem), at the Festival CircoCircolo (Tilberg), Theatre New Regentes (Den Haag), Festival Young Ones (Zwolle) and at the Festival Ultima Provincia (Italy).
In 2019 they wrote and filmed the short movie Samem (Rio de Janeiro), which was featured at the Festival Nachts (Holand) with live music composed and performed by Miguel Boulens and band. In the same year they colaborate with the Studio Radiográficos (Rio de Janeiro) in the video series Música de Elevador.
In 2018 Goos and Helena were invited by Strut & Fret Production House to take part in the creation and cast of Life The Show, directed by Scott Maidment. The show premiered at the Brisbane Festival in the same year. In 2019, Life played at the Fringe Festival in Adelaide, followed by a season at the Spiegeltent in Canberra. In 2020 Life was at the Sydney Festival, all in Australia.
In 2019 they created the concept and directed the modern ópera St Louis Bleus, in collaboration with the orchestra De ErePrijs. The show was performed in one season at the Musis Sacrum in Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Helena Bittencourt has also in 2018 beeing invited to create the theatre play, video and sound instalation, A menina e o Pote, at the exposition room and winner of the prize of the Cultural Centre of Oi Futuro (Rio de Janeiro). Directed by Fernanda Bond and with the video instalation by Valentina Homem, the play was performed by Helena and Nivea Magno. Both performers also signed the dramaturgy and composed together the original soundtrack of the project.