Claudel

Claudel is a live interdisciplinary performance installation under the artistic vision and pulsating creative guidance of artistic director Lazaro Godoy/GoPra Performance offering Pradera's solo intended as a homage to Claudel and WOMEN ARTISTS left in the dusty shadows of their male counterparts across history.

Claudel's live project will evoke precious yet tragic moments of her life finely painted as moving bright white skin, marble inspired, naked sculptures accompanied by sound artist, musician and vocalist Christiane Grimal-adding texture to the whole.

The performance fabric will embroidery a dramatized representation of the passionate, mutually influential yet intoxicating relationship of Claudel with acclaimed and historically fully recognized sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rodin was Claudel's teacher, collaborator and long term lover whom damaged Claudel profoundly when leaving her closed up to an obscure lonely death in a psyachiatric institution after she destroyed most of her brilliant art peices.

Most of her remaining art pieces can be appreciated at the Museum dedicated to her and her sculptures: Musée Camille Claudel in Nogent-sur-Seine, France.

Directed, Created & Presented by GoPra Performance

Artistic Director: Lazaro Godoy

Executive Director: Carlota Pradera

GoPra Advisor, design support: Jesse Sánchez (Henosis Hospitality)

Co-Producer: Casa Fe (Copperbridge Arts Initiative)

Artistic team:

Lazaro Godoy_ Artistic direction, video art & vision

Carlota Pradera_ Collaborating creative performer

Christiane Grimal_ Live musician, vocalist, performer

Evening's break down:

7:00pm-8:00pm_ Doors open, welcome to stroll around enjoying drinks and Claudel's video art projection by GoPra Performance

8:00pm-9:00pm_ Live performance

9:00pm-10:00pm_ Ambiance music and drinks available

BIOS

GoPra Performance is an interdisciplinary performance and arts Company of international scope, experience and drive based in Miami, FL. GoPra creates visual scenarios charged by theatrical movement languages embracing diverse body types and abilities to allow fuller risk-taking expressive embodiments by cross-disciplinary collaborating artists. Perpetual Mobility (The Practice), a workshop guided experience, and Healing Oasis International Center for the Arts are GoPra’s main developing pillars and artistic adventures today.

Copperbridge Foundation (CBF) is a Miami-based 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization with a mission to promote cultural and educational exchange through the medium of artistic expression.

The foundation was formed to serve the public by building a cultural ‘bridge’ to unite people through all forms of art including Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Dance, and Architecture.

CBF creates platforms for creating, exhibiting, and interpreting artworks from a broad range of Caribbean, African, North and South American cultures with a special emphasis on Cuba. Through educational travel programs, Copperbridge fosters dialogue through the arts.

Lazaro Godoy from Pinar del Río, Cuba, received first prize for his solo choreographed performance from YoungArts Foundation (1996) propelling him to study and graduate from The Juilliard School (2000).

His international dance credits include Bern Ballett, Festival de la Cite Foundation, ProArt, Projekttheater, International Solo Dance Festival, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater, Hanina Contemporary Art Gallery, and Movement Research at The Judson Church, NYC.

While working in Miami, FL, Lazaro has received numerous commissions to create, produce and present with the following organizations: Tigertail Productions (On. Stage Black Box), ScreenDance Miami, Bakehouse Art Complex, The Bridge Miami, Miami Theater Center- SandBox Black Box Artistic Residencies, (2014, 2016 and 2017), Miami Light Project, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, National YoungArts Foundation, Perez Art Museum Miami, Coral Gables Museum, Inkub8-Wynwood, Miami Performance International Festival, CCEMiami, and Florida International University.

Lazaro has also commissioned artists and collectives from diverse backgrounds, converging styles, ethnicities, cultures, and disciplines to participate in his creations. To date, 25 full-length works ranging from theater to dance on film, installation, and visual art encompass his artistic portfolio. The collaborations include partnerships with musicians, poets, writers, painters, designers, and performance artists. The impetus for the work finds intention and inspiration from everyday life. The natural world is a springboard for creating art driven by spontaneity, environmental consciousness, and the fragility of people and nature.

Carlota Pradera from Spain, EU holds a BA in performance and choreography from Florida International University (2009). She studied ballet, contemporary techniques, improvisation and contact improvisation across EU and in USA. She enjoyed and was pushed outside of the box by Rui Horta’s and Ramon Oller’s independent choreographic workshops in Spain, EU. Pradera has worked with several Miami based choreographers 2002-2009 and created her own projects under Pradera & Collaborators, 2011-2013, with live performances at Inkub8, Miami Light Project and more. Pradera has been guiding movement workshops for diverse communities 2001-present for GodoyPradera Projects & Programs, Arts for Learning, Shake-a-Leg, Miami Book Fair, Wynwood Art Fair, FAENA, Tigertail Productions and more.

GodoyPradera was born end 2013 through creation Bare Bones (MTC) and GoPra Performance was formally established in 2021.

Christiane Grimal is a singer, accordion player, composer, storyteller, and educator from Miami Beach. She grew up with 4 languages in a musical family. Everyone was always singing. By the time she was 5, she was singing songs by Joan Baez, by heart, a cappella, at family gatherings, and everywhere, with a special feeling for soul and folk from the seventies. Her grandmother would sing Gypsy songs while rocking her in a rocking chair in an old house on the Miami River – a subtle reminder of this heritage can be noted in the passion and drive of some of her original works. Her style is a confluence of eras, imprints, memories, and of her Cuban, Jewish, New York, and Miami origins. Her first musical project was in the Loire Valley of France, where she lived for nearly 15 years. There, she headed a 6-piece professional music project dedicated to the exploration and arrangements of her original compositions. Thanks to a generous grant from a private French company who supported her message of humanism, she produced her first album, titled “Silent Passages” and toured in France, where she continues to have a loyal fan base and lifelong friendships. An advocate for acceptance, compassion, love, and mutual respect, whether it’s a song, a project, or a lesson, everything she puts her pen to is for the end goal of creating a platform for reflection, and pathways to solidarity and human connection.