One of the driving forces of Marcela Levi’s performances lies in the way she displays the body’s interstices in a present and almost tangible manner, those holes from where senses escape or tend to escape. Since her 2002 performance Imagem, Marcela Levi has been building up a language that disturbs the hierarchy between body and object, affecting several dichotomies (inside and outside, body and mind, active and passive, assertion and denial) that guide our perception.... [read more]
Luiz Cornejo :: Primer Acto Magazine - December 2008
Concretely, she chooses (and narrates in a passage) the ritual of the man who literally “throws the lasso” around a woman. The dancer quarters this habit, puts her entrails in the open, creating and celebrating a liberating rite..... [read more]
Céline Pièttre and Sophie Grappin Schmitt :: Paris art - November 2008
Another very good surprise of the 2008 edition, the work of Marcela Levi [...]. More implicit, it does not lack, however, audacity nor a certain violence to the proposal of the young Brazilian choreographer.... [read more]
Jérôme Delatour :: Images de Danse - November 2008
Her feminism is a today's one; that's no longer a question of only introducing the man as an executioner and the woman as a victim. Between domination and seduction, rebellion and acceptance, Marcela Levi sows disorder and produces, as a result, without any doubt, the most erotic performance of Les Inaccoutumés.... [read more]
Joaquim Noguero :: La Vanguardia - November 2008
Levi will disclose her interiorities, until the smallest, the most intimate, that is neither sex nor her body offered with naturalness in the open.... [read more]
Barbara Raubert :: Susy Q Magazine - October 2008
In the cube where everything is possible, the force of her will to express cannot be contained nor be formated by any cloth piece besides her own skin and thus, all naked, she raises herself like a terrorist of the present with the inexorable asseveration of human body's temporality, her battlefield, that she displays without shame or modesty.... [read more]
Jérôme Provençal :: Les Inrockuptibles - July 2008
Marcela Levi literally takes the bull by the horns and, engaging with the public a frontal relation, digs in-depth the question of desire.... [read more]
Katharina Koschorreck :: Culturebase.net - June 2008
The dancer and choreographer Marcela Levi, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1973, completed her study of contemporary dance at the Angel Vianna School of Dance in 1996. For eight years she was a creative member of the company of the Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodriguez.... [read more]
Katja Praznik :: Obscena Magazine - March 2008
The two dance performances Massa de sentidos and In-organic by Brazilian artist Marcela Levi that were part of the program of this year’s festival Complicitats in Barcelona can be as all more complex performances approached in many different ways. I’m going to approach them as female spectator and participant of the festival.... [read more]
Quim Pujol :: Barcelona - February 2008
The scenes follow one another with gentleness and the objects as the movements are used in the right measure to create an aesthetic and semantic set with plenty of coherence. That is to say, nothing lacks or exceeds, everything is related and at the end of the work a clear and forceful message emerges.... [read more]
Roberto Pereira :: Jornal do Brasil - June 2007
What stands out from the get-go is that this is not merely a dancer, but a creator who does not create for herself, but within herself. She does not simply use her body in her dance, her body is her dance, overflowing with a disconcerting presence.... [read more]