MayBe is an international co-creation between Brazil and the UK. A show that explores Encounter as a catalyst of possibilities including love and intimacy.

In June 2015, Scottish based dancer and choreographer Marc Brew and Brazilian dancer Gisele Calazans participated in a creative residency at MIS – Museum of Image and Sound, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The encounter was a spontaneous combustion of bodies: movement and risk: affection and trust.

The creative process was conceived by Natalia Mallo (also live musician), and included Lighting Designer, Mirella Brandi as a co-creator of the work. The lighting emerged as a third dancer, making real-time choices, outlining the bodies and reshaping the space. Accessibility resources were embedded in the scene including caption, audio description and sign language.

“MayBe is about encounters and the inevitability of love. It is about what might be and an instance of doubt. Attraction, rejection, crossing paths and departures is a metaphor about the liquidity of relationships in the contemporary world.” (Natalia Mallo)

“Working with Natalia, Gisele and Mirella has been a wonderful cultural exchange between Scotland and Brazil where we have learnt an shared from each other through the creative process of MayBe. I particularly have fallen in love with their passion and commitment to dance and live music that encompasses whole heartedly a full accessible theatrical experience for all. And overcoming any obstacle that presents itself and how we can use it to inform the work and make it into a strength. MayBe combines a piece of us all and which is rich and honest.”(Marc Brew)