OLGA RORIZ: CHOREOGRAPHIES 2001–2016 by Rui Simões

CREDITS

Directed by:
Rui Simões

Production:
Real Ficção

SYNOPSIS

A series of video programs filmed over the course of a decade, following the choreographic works of Olga Roriz.

1 | GOLDBERG SITUATIONS
Solo performed by Olga Roriz. Bach's Goldberg Variations performed by Glenn Gould - at ACARTE.

2 | IN-FRACTIONS
Solo by Olga Roriz at Acarte. “In-Fractions” is born from the succession and accumulation of improvisations on a body with dispersed memories.

3 | HUNTING SCENES
A performance about seduction, struggles, power games, access words, surrender, rejection, fear, loneliness, discord, and the permanent conflicts of the body in action.

4 | INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLE OF THINGS
This project is based on a selection of preferences from visual, literary, filmic, and musical imagery.

5 | FINISTERRA
Related to our geographical position and the discovery of each character's trajectory.

6 | COLD HANDS
This work deals with seduction, struggles, power games, surrender and rejection, fear, loneliness, and eternal love. It relates to our geographical position and the discovery of the characters' trajectories.

7 | PRIVATE PROPERTY
A thick matter mixes cement, desire, past dreams, lies, lime, perverse games, pain, a hidden camera, water, passing time, blood, and lurking danger.

8 | PRIVATE TANGO
Private Tango results from the complicity between the performers and the camera. The initially choreographed movements adapt and reinvent themselves in an improvisation where the camera also becomes a performer.

9 | ANGELS, ARCHANGELS, SERAPHIM, CHERUBIM... AND POWERS
We trace the memory of a lost people, galloping through empty villages, among unopened books, in stone cathedrals, in unplowed lands, in little boxes of knowledge, in children who lose themselves, among wolves, pigs, roosters, and turkeys waiting to be slaughtered.

10 | THE EYES OF GULAY CABBAR
The Eyes of Gulay Cabbar is a fiction project based on a real event in Turkey: a natural disaster caused a series of tragic accidents. Magazines were filled with "sensationalist" news of the event.