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Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz (PT): A gesture that is nothing but a threat
How dance is doing in Europe II
by Lucie Břinkova | 19 Junho 2014
„Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz presented how to work with the body and the voice without
engaging in large dance creations. In one sentence A gesture that is nothing but a threat can
be described as a marvellously conceived game of rhythm and movement.“
THE VOLSKRANT (Jornal Nacional)
by Mirjam van der Linden | 26 Abril 2012 (V.O. Holandês, tradução livre para o Inglês)
"Springdance festival has always been on the border of dance and performance art, dance
and theater, and the performances presented on Tuesday were a perfect example of this. (...)
Dance in its strict sense was scarce in the evenings. In 'A Gesture That is Nothing But a
Threat' words go off with the bodies of Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, the dancers and
choreographers of the piece. With a diction to blow you away, they pour a cascade of letters,
sounds and accents from their mouth in a rapid repetition where other meanings merge.
(...) In a very clever way, this frenetic relationship drama, if that’s the case, cause you don’t
really know what exactly is that play between man and woman (…). If at a given time the
movement takes over, you literally see that it is the purely physical network such as the
nuances they’ve done in language. (…)"
IN: http://www.1erang.nl/voorstelling/springdance_sofia_dias_vitor_roriz/recensies
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Portuguese Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz let the language speak their movements.
by Maarten Baanders | 25 Abril 2012 (V.O. Holandês, tradução livre para o Inglês)
“You have those performances that you think are remarkably simple and where you
understated a complete world of its own. Performances in which everything is recognizable.
Words, movement, scenery. Everything as familiar and homely. But then a knock on data.
Patterns merge. The language is uncertain. Everything rattles and touches adrift. And yet it is
true. For your eyes and ears takes place on a world without cracks and with its own logic. In
one way or another, afterwards, you leave the room with a good feeling.
Such a performance is "A gesture is nothing but a threat. Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz move and
let the language speak their movements. Same rhythm, same speed includes their words and
their gestures. They build a great stress on them.
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In their performance-like work, like "Again from the beginning, Dias Roriz breakthrough
prevailing codes and images, to build a new context. In 'O mesmo mas ligeiramente diferente
"let them see what wonderful roads movement among language lie.
In 'A gesture is nothing but a threat' Dias and Roriz do something wonderful with words. They
thread them together. They make associations, not only with what the words mean, but with
their sound. "Open your eyes," they invite the public. The words flow out. "I hope you rise,"
results from it, and then: 'You're right'. And so it goes. Again and again they bring such
beautiful poetic flow going. Words are not defined parts with a fixed meaning. It is as
remarkable as creative the way these two Portuguese handle with English. Or can they just
do it because they are not native speakers? Are they more capable with the English words
and their meanings, which parts are probably better to separate and breack through? Quite
naturally, they surprise you in taking you from one language to another. The sound
determines the twisting. Of course, the words never loose their meanings. That’s why the
word series in this show are so funny. Rapidly tapping Dias and Roriz and many meanings,
without time to consider them. The meaning as flies away. This gives you a giddy feeling, like
you’re in great speed through the swept universe.
In their movements they do the same, but it’s more gradual and subtle. The beginning is
quite normal.: A man and a woman at a table. From that position they build a series of
movements, repeated, each supplemented by a subsequent movement. Get up, pick up a
map, water drinking: nothing special, it seems. But in an airy way they gradually go beyond
the walls of normal. Furniture goes on their side. Dramatic gestures and facial expressions
break out. All this smoothly and with a compelling rhythm. Slowly, the domesticity place for a
splendid absurdity. Still very simple and clear. It is liberating. You leave the room with such a
good feeling.”
IN: http://www.dedodo.nl/2012/04/25/portugezen-sofia-dias-en-vitor-roriz-laten-de-taal-bewegen-en-hunbewegingen-spreken/
LONDON DANCE
Review Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz – Spring Loaded at The Place.
Performance: 20 April 2012
by Jeffrey Gordon Baker | 23 Abril 2012
Questions of form and content are never far from consideration in the practice of
contemporary dance. In a post-show Q&A after Friday’s Spring Loaded programme at The
Place, these questions were well articulated by choreographer-performers Sofia Dias and
Vitor Roriz, whose piece A Gesture that is Nothing but a Threat occupied the first half of the
evening. Roriz and Dias explained that this hypnotic work of rapid verbal and physical
repetitions, was born of play, in resistance to the notion that thematics have to come first in
the creation of dances. Indeed, this playful spirit infused the work, in which the pair started
by sitting across a table from each other repeating words and phrases until they fell apart
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into mere monotonous sounds, then evolving into new words, new phrases, often to
serendipitous effect.
The same happened with the movement. Fragments of what could have been household
rituals or mysterious crime scene re-enactments were rewound and fast-forwarded with
minor changes appearing within each new cycle. The device here could have made these feel
like simple improvisation exercises, but Roriz and Dias are distinctive and compelling physical
performers. They were able to mine the monotony in both the movement and the voice for
subtle variations, humour, even tenderness. A pause for breath, a conspiratorial whisper or a
wry look would bring us sharply back into the reality of the moment just before we were
vibrated back into the mesmerising soundscape of their vocalisations. This was a fascinating
work, deceptively simple in structure, a virtuoso illustration of how we simultaneously
discover and create the present through the incessant repetition of the past.
THE METROPOTAM | online
Explore Dance Festival winners – A gesture that is nothing but a threat.
by Flavia | 17 Novembro 2011 (V.O. Romeno, tradução livre para o Inglês)
“Judging by the name, many would think that the Explore Dance Festival is an event only for
dance lovers which includes performances that are related only to that side of art. Passing
over any preconceived idea, we want to tell you that things are not like that, and
representations that took place in the festival showed the complexity that can come when it
comes to braiding feelings and views on life and art.
Dance, in fact, means much more than simple definition that would arise in the mind the first
utterance of the word, it is not only in coordinating the various parts of the body according to
the music provided by the context, as many would think. In fact, dancing can mean
something different for each of us, primarily an expression of personality through movement,
through gestures, or any other form of body manifestation, secondly, a release within the
norms of physical behavior that are subjected in society and thirdly, it can also be anything
each one wants, whether we are observers or dancers.
Every time the thoughts remain, fascinated by the capacities of expression of the human
being, as I was after I saw the show "A Gesture That is Nothing but a threat" of Portuguese
choreographers, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, who have won the Prix Jardin d'Europe.
Two people, a table and two chairs are more than enough to send an amalgam of ideas and
feelings, we realize, and I look curious. The instigation that starts the show is simple, but full
of meaning: "Open your eyes!" tell us two, and we choose to listen, realizing that having
opened eyes is much more than just lifting the eyelid reflex action which we are accustomed.
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The following can be summarized and described in words or following a logical, because
everything that happens between the two, during the 40 minutes, you is unlike any typical
situation in which people are found in everyday society. We are witnessing a game of words
and tone of voice, the two communicate throughout the show. Based on a word manoeuvre,
to get to another word, then another and so on.
The two complete each other and they exchange playful verbal construction, always
maneuvering their voice in different ways, climbing or descending tone, singing, whispering
or chanting. The result of these games often provokes laughter, but silence interposed from
time to time is to emphasize the philosophical substrate of performance.
Their movements underly this unconventional dialogue, and are as illogical as puzzling,
putting us in front of the concept of "threat" that can be applied if the abuse or misuse of the
word. A word as a threat, as the title says, can have a big weigh for people without really
meaning anything. The power of words and the traps in which we are caught daily, because
of social norms that can make us lose completely different substrates and inner feelings that
actually do not need any words to be expressed.
The freedom that our minds give us is huge, a thought with which I left the show,
reinterpreting the ability to use voice and body language to restore what we understand, but
then I realize that thought is transient and that those social norms will always be dominant ...
About Sofia and Vitor you can learn more by reading their blog, and to see how the
connection between them is, here is another clip from their show, called "Unfolding".”
IN: http://metropotam.ro/La-zi/Castigatorii-Explore-Dance-Festival-A-gesture-that-is-nothing-but-a-threatart1930386400/
JORNAL PÚBLICO
Dança portuguesa em destaque na europa. Sofia Dias e Vítor Roriz vencem prémio Jardin
d’Europe
Outubro 2011
Dupla de coreógrafos foi distinguida hoje com o prémio Prix
Jardin d’Europe, no valor de 10 mil euros, a mais importante
distinção para a emergente dança contemporânea europeia.
A dupla de coreógrafos portuguesa Sofia Dias e Vítor Roriz
recebeu este sábado, em Bucareste, o prémio Jardim
d’Europe, no valor de dez mil euros, atribuído por um júri
internacional composto por oito críticos à peça “Um gesto que não passa de uma ameaça”,
apresentada na passada quarta-feira no 6º Xplore Dance Festival que decorreu na capital
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romena, a coreografia distinguiu-se do conjunto dos trabalhos apresentados por nomes
emergentes da cena europeia.
O Prémio Jardin d’Europe, na sua 4ª edição, é a mais importante distinção para a nova criação
contemporânea europeia e resulta da colaboração de 14 instituições, entre elas o ImpulsTanz,
em Viena, e a companhia Ultima Vez, em Bruxelas. O festival iDans, em Istambul ou a
companhia Cullberg Ballet, em Estocolmo. Na crítica publicada no P2 aquando da estreia de
“Um gesto que não passa de uma ameaça” no Centro Cultural de Belém, em Lisboa, a 2 de
Julho deste ano, Luísa Roubaud escrevia: “A peça evidencia basear-se na improvisação e
numa aturada escuta introspectiva. Mas estamos longe de uma catarse: Dias e Roriz
lançaram-se, literalmente, de corpo e alma, num intenso brainstorming motor, mental e
verbal, e é dele que emana toda a dinâmica dramatúrgica; contudo, sob a aparente
associação livre, o cuidado com os ínfimos detalhes com que corpo e voz dão visibilidade
cénica à insondável linha condutora que liga o material apresentado, denota decantação e
selecção, prevalência do controlo sobre o risco”. A coreografia mereceu 4 de 5 estrelas. “Um
gesto que não passa de uma ameaça” é apresentado dias 22 de Outubro em Évora (Festival
Internacional de Dança Contemporânea), 12 de Novembro em Estarreja (Cine-teatro de
Estarreja), e de 24 a 26 de Novembro em Lisboa (Espaço Alkantara).
Duo of choreographers was honoured today with the Prix Jardin d'Europe, 10 000 euros, the
most important distinction for the emerging European contemporary dance.
The Portuguese duo of choreographers Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz received on Saturday in
Bucharest, the award Jardin d’Europe, ten thousand euros, awarded by an international jury
composed of eight critics with the show "A gesture that is nothing but a threat, "presented
last Wednesday at 6th Xplore Dance Festival held in the Romanian capital, the choreography
was distinguished from all the rest of the works presented by the emerging European dance
scene.
The Prix Jardin d'Europe, in its fourth edition, is the most important distinction to European
contemporary creation and is a collaboration between 14 institutions, including the
ImPulsTanz in Vienna, and Ultima Vez Co., in Brussels. The festival iDans in Istanbul or the
company Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm.
In the review published in P2 at the premiere of "A gesture that is nothing but a threat" at
Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon on the 2nd July this year, Luísa Roubaud wrote: "The
show seems to be based on improvisation and in a thorough introspective listening. But we
are far from a catharsis: Dias and Roriz launched themselves, literally, body and soul on an
intense brainstorming, mental and verbal, and it is from there that all the dramaturgical
dynamics radiates; however, under the apparent free association, the attention in the most
tiniest details with which body and voice give scenic visibility to the enigmatic conductive
line that connects the material presented, denotes decantation and selection, controlled
prevalence over the risk. " The choreography deserved 4 out of 5 stars.
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"A gesture that is nothing but a threat" will be presented on the 22nd October in Évora
(International Festival of Contemporary Dance), 12th November in Estarreja (Cine-Theatre
Estarreja), and 24-26 November in Lisbon (Espaço Alkantara).”
NOTÍCIAS DE IMPULSTANZ
4º Prémio Jardin d’Europe vai para Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz
Outubro 2011
Os vencedores do Prix Jardin d’Europe foram nomeados por um
júri composto por oito críticos de dança de sete países, que
integraram em simultâneo o programa Critical Endeavour para
escritores emergentes durante o Festival eXplore.
O júri anunciou que o trabalho, Um gesto que não passa de uma ameaça de Dias e Roriz foi
premiado devido à "sua investigação repensada com minucia e detalhe da palavra, da voz e
som na sua relação com a incorporação (v.o.embodiment). A peça alcançou uma identidade
pessoal por questionar permanentemente a coreografia através do trabalho criativo e
implicação física; em simultâneo, abriu um espaço poético de pensamentos e sentimentos,
enquanto os dois performers se implicaram numa descoberta muito íntima."
The winners of the Prix Jardin d’Europe were nominated by a jury consisting of 8 young
dance journalists from 7 countries who took at the same time part in the mentoring program
Critical Endeavour for emerging dance writers during the eXplore dance festival.
The jury announced that the work A Gesture that is Nothing but a Threat of Dias and Roriz
was awarded for “their thorough re-thinking and detailed investigation of the word, voice
and sound in relation to embodiment. The piece achieved a personal identity by engaging in
the on going questioning of the choreography through creative and physical labour; while at
the same time opening up a poetic space of thoughts, feelings and, as the two performers
enacted a very intimate discovery.”
IN: http://www.impulstanz.com/news/870/en/