July 31 to August 2, 2026
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
MAM Rio
TICKET SALES
THE DIVINE COMEDY
Ritrovai-Rivedere
We would like to inform you that tickets are now available for THE DIVINE COMEDY: Ritrovai – Rivedere, directed by Regina Miranda, an event associated with the Laban 2026 Conference.
Tickets can be purchased via Sympla:
https://www.sympla.com.br/evento/divina-comedia-ritrovai-rivedere/3496104
THE DIVINE COMEDY:
Ritrovai – Rivedere
July 30, 2026 • 6:00 PM and
July 30, 2026 • 8:00 PM
ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES:
JULY 30 (THURSDAY), AT 6:00 PM AND 8:00 PM
WHERE:
MAM Rio – Museum of Modern Art of Rio
Address:
Av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85,
Parque do Flamengo / RJ
Tel: (21) 3883-5600
DURATION: 75 min
GENRE: itinerant scenic installation
RATING: 12+
CAPACITY: 700 spectators
Thirty-five years after the historic occupation of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), choreographer and director Regina Miranda revisits one of the most significant works of her artistic career. The Divine Comedy: Ritrovai (rediscovery) – Rivedere (reimagining) transforms the 16,500 m² of MAM Rio's gardens into a grand immersive scenic installation, bringing together around 120 actors, dancers, and performers from different generations.
Inspired by Dante Alighieri’s classic (1265–1321), the show recreates the journey through Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise in a free-circulation experience, where the audience walks through different spaces and builds their own path among simultaneous scenes. More than an adaptation of the medieval masterpiece, the production proposes a reflection on the contemporary world: Inferno represents personal, political, and social crises; Purgatory, the space of transformation and hope; and Paradise, the possibility of connection, communion, and transcendence.
The cast brings together artists aged between 18 and 90, integrating young performers and participants from the historic production presented at MAM 35 years ago. This reunion of different generations reaffirms the power of collective creation and celebrates the permanence of art as a space for memory, reinvention, and shared experience.
Museum of Modern Art, MAM RJ
Regina Miranda & ActorsDancers Company
present
Direction and Choreography Regina Miranda
Associate Director Marina Salomon
Assistant Directors Adriana Bonfatti and Ligia Tourinho
Thirty-five years ago, The Divine Comedy, an immersive and itinerant scenic-choreographic installation created and directed by Regina Miranda, took shape by occupying all the spaces of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, MAM RJ — from its underground levels to the rooftop slab that once covered the former Galpão das Artes (Arts’ Warehouse) — passing through its gardens and exhibition galleries.
The dramaturgical structure staged all the Cantos of Dante’s work and explored the passage through the museum’s areas as a principle of scenic organization, bodily displacement, and spatial composition. The dialogue with MAM’s architecture became so profound that the building became an inseparable element of the performance. With 146 performers and the participation of several visual artists, the installation captivated the city, “transforming the museum into a paradise”, as filmmaker Arnaldo Jabor wrote in Folha de São Paulo, and became a historic landmark in the Brazilian artistic scene.
In 2026, the Museum of Modern Art, MAM RJ is once again the venue chosen by Regina for her reimagining of Dante’s text as a large-scale immersive performance, now entitled RITROVAI THE DIVINE COMEDY RIVEDERE. The performance will take place on July 30, 2026, featuring approximately 100 artists from dance, theater, opera, and circus — including the Regina Miranda & ActorsDancers Company, around 20 members of the original production, and 70 guest artists performing simultaneous scenes throughout the beautiful gardens of the museum.
To reactivate the journey between territories as modes of bodily existence, the director proposes a dramaturgy of thresholds and displacements, in which meaning emerges not from remaining in each space, but from the experience of passing through them. The performance thus pulses between lived memory and the present moment, listening to the resonances of the original production, sensing what remains alive within body-memory, and creating a new collective experience that celebrates the strength of the moving body as a living archive, imbued with space and in constant exchange with its surroundings.