Sometimes, there are machines, gears and systems so large and complex that may seem impossible to stop, even when most people think we would live much better with them. The truth is that sometimes all it takes is a particle smaller than a speck of dust (uma partícula mais pequena do que um grão de pó) to stop all the machines in the world. Has this ever happened, perhaps? Let's imagine that it might have happened. And let us also imagine the silence right after everything stops. Would that truly be silence? What other sounds or voices would be hidden in this machinery silence? What languages would be spoken and what would they say?
© Bruno Simão
© Bruno Simão
© Bruno Simão
© Bruno Simão
Credits
Artistic Direction
Sofia Dias e Vítor Roriz
Interpretation
Francisca Pinto, Lucas Damiani e Victor Lattaque
Sound/Music
Sofia Dias
Light Design and Technical Direction
Nuno Borda D’Água
Costumes
Filipe Pereira
Scenography collaboration
Catarina Dias
Production
Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz
Co-production
Teatro Luiz de Camões LU.CA (Lisboa), Teatro Viriato (Viseu), Teatro Municipal do Porto, Cineteatro Louletano (Loulé), A Oficina (Guimarães), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo).
Residency Support
Forum Dança (Lisboa), Fundação Champalimaud (Lisboa) - Artistas residentes 2023/24, Pro.Dança (Lisboa)
Support
Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisboa)
Acknowledgments
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Administration SD&VR
Cátia Mateus
Diffusion SD&VR
Sylvie Becquet
© Joana Linda
Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz are a duo of artists collaborating since 2006. The hybrid nature of their research, connected to a strong curiosity and need for experimentation, led them to the create several shows, performances, videos, podcasts and instalations, crossing different contexts and blurring limits between artistic fields. Their performances conceived for stage, summon up a particular choreographic language in relation to text and voice, as manifested in the pieces "A gesture that is nothing but a threat", 2011 (Prix Jardin d'Europe and 1st Aerowaves Spring Forward) and "What does not happen", 2018, both still touring. As a duo, they were invited to collaborate with several artists, such as Catarina Dias, Lilia Mestre, Lara Torres, Gonçalo Waddington and Carla Maciel, Marco Martins and Clara Andermatt, Marco Martins, Mark Tompkins, Tim Etchells, Felipe Hirsch (Opera Orphée). Since the beginning of their collaboration they are supported by many different structures: O Espaço do Tempo, Bomba Suicida and Materiais Diversos. Along these years they have enjoyed the significant support of the European networks Looping, TRANSFER, Aerowaves, Open Latitudes, Modul Dance, ONDA and Départs.