Seven years after O que não acontece, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz return to the duet, the format that best reflects both their artistic complicity and the intensity of a collaboration spanning nearly two decades. Their duets appear as intimate moments of sharing with the audience—of sharing states of presence, perspectives on the world, on what it means to live, to destroy and to build with another.
In this new duet, O que se abre em nós, the choreographic, sound and textual materials arise from Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz' research on the struggle between the banality of everyday life and the intensity of the stage. Featuring songs from past creations and personal archive materials, the piece situates itself somewhere between a bizarre musical, a conversation, and a dance that resists being named. Sofia and Vítor contemplate what they have made, they reinvent their past and test new ways of being together. From their shared history, they make their dependence on the stage a vanishing point for reflecting on what it means to go on. And to go on together.
Artistic and technical credits
Concept and performance | Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz Lighting design | Nuno Borda de Água Text | Tiago Rodrigues, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz Sound design | Sofia Dias Artistic collaborators | Filipe Pereira and Catarina Dias Production | SD&VR, Lda. Co-production | Alkantara, Galeria Zé dos Bois Support | Estúdios Victor Córdon (as part of the At Home program) Management | SD&VR, Cátia Mateus
Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz is a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic — Culture I DGARTES and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.