We have created a garden, an archive and a foundation for Ismael, according to his wishes in the last years of his life.
Please share your memories, texts, photographs, films etc. to mail@ismaelivo.com for us to present and cherish for our inspiration and for future generations.

Ismael Ivo, * 17th of January 1955 São Paolo (Brazil),† 8th of April 2021 São Paolo, dancer and choreographer.

Link zum UN Bericht

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

THE GOD OF MOVEMENT

A man of hope, a man of truth, a man with an illuminated soul.
 
A liberator – he gave a voice to the oppressed.

Ismael showed us what is possible by taking risks, by moving and dancing social racial artistic and institutional boundaries.
 
He showed us the power of his passion and engaged our own with is eloquence, beauty and talent.

He was a visionary and a dreamer. One who created his very own universe by becoming a sun around which we now revolve.

Ismael knew that the expansion of the physical, mental and the emotional allows us to contribute to the growth of civilisation.

By dancing and vibrating our hearts and minds out of the ordinary world into the realm of greater consciousness and a higher quality of life.

We who had the honour of knowing him personally also have the responsibility of preserving his memory and his teachings for those who follow.

Marcel Kaskeline, President of the Foundation

Catherine Jennings. Creater, Collaborator, Companion

Content Director of the Foundation – Emma Vollmann

Artist/Architect, Stage Set Designer, Collaborator and Manager of Ismaels Estate

Anabella and Armin are reviving the art of dance in our community and bringing new life to the castle.

The Cultural Society of the Ismael Ivo Foundation is inspired by Sarah Jennings

the later Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg living an independant life ahead of her times. Politically active, investing and building.

5 June 1660 – 18 October 1744

Pina Bausch & Ismael Ivo

Ismael in Vienna

Ismael Ivo in Vienna at the Burgtheater with the “golden honorary cross of the city of vienna”.

Ismael in Venezia

“Look at the Italians they cultivate joy.”

Ismael Ivo, choreograf and director of the dancesection of the Biennale of Venice from 2005 till 2012.

From 2017 till 2020 Ismael Ivo was the director of the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo.

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