ASSOCIATED EVENTS

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.