Sons Mentirosos Misteriosos

A closer look at childhood, allowed us to see that many of the states of presence and choreographic materials in our projects are tangential to the way children relate to their context. The attempts to deviate from a linear time, the alternation between the concrete and the abstract, the way we deal with the ideas of simultaneity and multiplicity looking for a non-hierarchical relationship between movement, voice, word and objects are strong directions of our research, but they also seem intrinsic to children in their interaction with the world.
For this reason, in this new project, more than adapting our modes of research and composition to the children’s universe, it seems more useful to continue experimenting focusing on the characteristics that bring us closer to it: the freedom to jump from one thing to another, to ability to transform concrete into something magical due to the “intensity” of the gaze and, above all, the way to summon issues that are simultaneously metaphysical, ontological, aesthetic, banal and almost always unpredictable.

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz