Lume 

In more than 20 years of existence, LUME has consolidated itself as one of the most significant theatre ensembles in Brazil today. Created in 1985 at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with the idea to be a centre for investigation and study of the actor's art,
With its ethical-aesthetic approach, the company has not only created its own way to do theatre, reflected in its singular artistic experiences provoked by its performances, but has also become a reference point for actors and theatre researchers that partake of this re-dimensioning of the actor's craft, technique and ethic. Through its performances, workshops, cultural barters, work exchanges, theoretical reflection, the stage and the street, LUME celebrates theatre as the art of meeting and as a space which honours the human being.

Oozing talent, they allow the audience the opportunity to identify with hidden sensations... actors, human beings illuminated by the eternal and difficult art of showing life as it really is

LUME a bief history
The origins of the company lie in the experiences of the company's founder Luis Otavio Burnier (1956-1995) in his years of training as a disciple of Etienne Decroux and research with other renowned practitioners including Eugenio Barba, Jacques Lecoq, and masters of the oriental theatre styles: Noh, Kabuki and Kathakali.
Since its creation, LUME has created 23 performances, and currently maintains a number of shows in repertory. With their combination of performances, workshops and technical demonstrations, the company tours extensively around the world, having visited to date more than 20 different countries.
To compliment the investigations made by the company’s fixed group of performers, exchanges between LUME and other artists has become a constant practice, bringing the group into contact with other ways of thinking and doing art, benefitting from the richness of different approaches and thus diversifying and clarifying the groups' own particular path. Along the years, LUME has cultivated special working relationships with master practioners Iben Nagel Rasmussen (Odin Teatret, Denmark), Natsu Nakajima (Japan), Nani and Leris Colombaioni (Italy), Sue Morrison (Canada), Tadashi Endo (Japan) and Kai Bredholt (Odin Teatret, Denmark).
Barão Geraldo, the district where LUME's centre is located, has been transformed into an important theatrical pole in Brazil, where various groups and artists have settled in order to dedicate themselves to investigation, in search of a theatre practise that values the actor within a theatre that reflects his/her identity and artistic and aesthetic concerns, within an atmosphere of collaboration and exchange.