ISAN BRAZIL emerges from an artistic encounter initiated by Jitti Chompee, Director of the National Choreography Centre of Thailand (NCCT), who was immediately captivated by Vitor Hamamoto’s presence as a self-taught performer. What resonated was not only Hamamoto’s physical mastery, but the way his body embodies a convergence of mixed heritage—nationality, skin color, and culture—coexisting with remarkable clarity and balance.

Driven by a curatorial curiosity, Chompee proposed an experiment: what happens when an artist is displaced into a new environment—geographically, culturally, and socially? How might a shift in place, sound, and collective memory reshape the artist’s perspective and allow a new choreographic voice to emerge? ISAN BRAZIL is the result of this inquiry.

This work is a reimagining of Hamamoto’s solo Missing Names, developed through collaboration with Morlam artists—traditional folk musicians from the College of Music, Mahasarakham University, whose music is historically associated with healing and communal memory. By bringing contemporary choreography into dialogue with ancestral sound, the piece bridges distant geographies and lived histories, revealing how movement can become a site of exchange, adaptation, and transformation.

About the Artist

Vitor Hamamoto is a self-taught Brazilian choreographer and performer whose distinctive movement language has emerged from sustained personal research and rigorous artistic exploration. Using his body as the primary site of inquiry and expression, he challenges physical and emotional limits to articulate universal human narratives. His choreographic practice balances sensitivity and intensity, generating works that resonate strongly with both audiences and critics.