In this workshop, choreographers and dancers Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz propose that participants look for the intermediate or transitional place between what is familiar and what is strange.
In this workshop, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz present a series of research and improvisation tools in search of a limit, not so much in the sense of extreme physical and emotional experience (which is also of interest to this process), but of the moment when any system is unable to respond or compensates for this lack with a displaced response.
Sofia and Vítor have been developing a series of research and improvisation tools with simple and clear premises, some dubbed “impossible tasks”, where the focus is not so much on their virtuoso execution, but on the way we transgress and distort them - revealing some of the intimate connections we establish with things.
Throughout the workshop, the choreographers will work on the relationship between gesture and movement with the word and the voice: the word, assumed as malleable matter, which exists beyond its meaning; the voice, as the excess that “overflows” the bodies.
Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz are a duo of artists/choreographers who have been collaborating since 2006. The hybrid nature of their research, combined with a curiosity and need for experimentation, has led them to create various shows, performances, soundtracks, videos, podcasts and installations, crossing different contexts and blurring boundaries between artistic areas. Their stage shows, predominantly performed by the two of them, use a refined choreographic language in connection with words and voice, and have been presented in more than 17 countries. In 2011, they were awarded the Prix Jardin d’Europe and the Aerowaves Spring Forward for their 2011 show Um gesto que não passa de uma ameaça. They have been invited to collaborate with various artists, including Catarina Dias, Marco Martins, Clara Andermatt, Mark Tompkins, Felipe Hirsch, Boris Charmatz and, more frequently, with Tiago Rodrigues. They teach occasionally and have organized residencies and research groups for artists in different contexts. They were invited to curate PACAP 2 (2018/2019) and PACAP 6 (2023) - Advanced Creation Program in Performing Arts. Between 2023/24, they are Resident Artists at the Champalimaud Foundation.
