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New Era Dancers at Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro

Since 2023, New Era Dancers has been active in the Dance Residency Program at Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, where Márcia Delgado brings together Classical Ballet training, Chinese Classical Dance techniques, and body therapies applied within professional dance classes.

Alongside this work, we have created performances with original choreographies by Márcia Delgado, with the generous support of Teatro Municipal. These productions explore the fusion of tradition and innovation, highlighting the healing dimension of dance.

This residency has also been a fertile space for research, where techniques such as breathing practices, somatic awareness, and integrative therapies were introduced to accelerate dancers’ evolution — both technically and artistically.

Through this experience, New Era Dancers continues to affirm its mission: to expand the possibilities of dance as art, science, and transformation.

Dance Residency at the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, 2023. The participants are dance teachers and graduating students. The video captures a preparatory exercise for adagio.

Dance Residency at the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, 2023. The participants are dance teachers and graduating students, initiating at the Ballet technique. The video captures a simple Ballet class with corrections.

Scene choreography from “The Legend of the Red Thread”. Inspired by the ancient tea traditions of the Bulang people in Jingmai Mountain, Yunnan, China. This scene was created and staged in only two days before the performance, working with non-professional performers, some of whom were not dancers.

Choreography by Marcia Delgado

Private coaching sessions featuring ballerina Gabriela in Coppélia repertoire and ballerina Melissa performing for the Só Dança cast promotional project. Individualized artistic and technical training focused on performance quality, versatility, musicality, and stage presence.

Paquita variation performed by my student at YAGP Brazil, presented at Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro-Brazil.
Student prepared through private coaching focused on classical technique, artistic development, competition preparation, and performance refinement.

Coaching and choreography rehearsal for the Beijing Dance Academy children’s pas de deux Under the Umbrella (《伞下》), performed by Ana Julia and Breno, aged 9 and 10. Work focused on musicality, coordination, expressive movement, and the poetic storytelling traditions of Chinese dance pedagogy.

With enormous wings transforming the stage into a poetic dreamscape, classical pieces such as The Dying Swan and La Sylphide were reimagined through an atmosphere of delicacy, mystery, and emotion.

More than a performance, it was an artistic experience created to awaken wonder, presence, and memory, shared closely with the families of our students in a special and intimate moment inside the school itself.

Rehearsal test scene, held in a rehearsal room of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro in 2023, with students from the Dance Residency program.

Discover the Creations of New Era Dancers - Chinese Classical Dance and Classical Ballet

Creations by NED