Ophelia is Thirsty is an enterprise designed by Cecilia Bizzotto to support and disclose Brazilian art outside country and produce art work exploring reality provoked by dreams, madness, death and art itself.
Cecilia is a Brazilian performing artist from Belo Horizonte who dedicates her studies and work to decentralize production and access to art aiming to give voices to underprivileged populations. Her artistic work has been developed in associative forms of production of arts building art work not necessarily related to the commercial and official artistic production field.
She is a founding-member of the Companhia Ludica dos Atores, a theatre group devoted to explore the popular feature of Shakespeare’s work designing shows for a Brazilian audience.
Before moving to London, where she is now based, she has worked for five years as theatre lecturer, leading workshops in several communities across town through the Arena da Cultura project – a free school of arts established in 1990 by the city hall of Belo Horizonte.
During her degree course, she met the theatre director Marcos Vogel, who she worked with over several years at Companhia Ludica dos Atores, Arena da Cultura and other projects beyond the conventional stages based in centre of town and arts.
In film and video, she has established an important connection with the video artist Carlosmagno Rodrigues who recorded her performance Dancing for Ophelia’s Madness over a circuit across public mental health institutions based in Belo Horizonte's bounds, being the first work they have done together.
In London Cecilia went to the Birkbeck University of London where she studied Arts Administration and Management after have helped exhibitions projects in the Brazilian embassy.
Also In the city her artistic path has its beginning in a Documentary Performance workshop leaded by Ong Keng Shen and Tellervo Kalleinen. From her research about that artistic language she was invited by Janina Moniska to develop a performance for the Live Art Salon - Brighton Festival Fringe which outcome was the piece "From Where I came is Where I go".
