The Cia de Dança do Pantanal (Pantanal Dance Company) takes part in the opening of Fórum PANROTAS 2025, held from March 11 to 12 in São Paulo. The event is known for bringing together the leading figures in tourism and serving as a showcase for promoting national destinations, including the Pantanal.

The forum’s schedule includes lectures and panels discussing the role of leadership in organizations, addressing trends in marketing, distribution, sustainability, technology, and analyses of consumer behavior.

Considered one of the leading tourism products of Mato Grosso do Sul, the Pantanal faces significant environmental challenges, and this is the central theme of the show Guadakan, which will be performed by the Cia de Dança do Pantanal during the event. The Mato Grosso do Sul company was invited by the State Government, through the Tourism Foundation, to perform at PANROTAS.

“In the beginning, there was simplicity. The elders learned and passed on to their own that everything in the Pantanal has an owner, non-human, supernatural or divine beings, who must be respected and demand ethical conduct so that everyone there can coexist in balance amid the resources they offer. When rules are broken, punishments will be handed down. During some years of wildfires, more than 17 million vertebrate animals were killed by fire in the Pantanal. In the present, the Pantanal recovers through regeneration and prevention initiatives, and new images resurface in the reflection of its waters,” reads an excerpt from the presentation of Guadakan, which also features a soundtrack by OCAMP (Orquestra de Câmara do Pantanal / Pantanal Chamber Orchestra).

The show is based on an indigenous Guató myth, an ethnic group established on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, and transports the audience to the origins of the peoples of the Pantanal, conveying ancestral wisdom and its warnings about preserving the biome. More than four thousand spectators have already seen the production, in various cities such as Corumbá, Campo Grande, Dourados, and Ponta Porã, as well as Rio de Janeiro and Asunción, in Paraguay.

“In the beginning, there was simplicity. The elders learned and passed on to their own that everything in the Pantanal has an owner, non-human, supernatural or divine beings, who must be respected and demand ethical conduct so that everyone there can coexist in balance amid the resources they offer. When rules are broken, punishments will be handed down. During some years of wildfires, more than 17 million vertebrate animals were killed by fire in the Pantanal. In the present, the Pantanal recovers through regeneration and prevention initiatives, and new images resurface in the reflection of its waters,” reads an excerpt from the presentation of Guadakan, which also features a soundtrack by OCAMP (Orquestra de Câmara do Pantanal / Pantanal Chamber Orchestra).

The show is based on an indigenous Guató myth, an ethnic group established on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, and transports the audience to the origins of the peoples of the Pantanal, conveying ancestral wisdom and its warnings about preserving the biome. More than four thousand spectators have already seen the production, in various cities such as Corumbá, Campo Grande, Dourados, and Ponta Porã, as well as Rio de Janeiro and Asunción, in Paraguay.