Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz
O Lugar do Canto está Vazio
The Place at the Corner is Empty
2019
This play emerges from the confrontation between the research and choreographic composition tools of Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz and the bodies and sensibilities of the Companhia Maior cast. The play begins with an appeal to experimentation, which is no more than an attempt to find that which we can’t control or which places us in a zone of conflict, of risk or even of breakdown. It seems to be in this place, between what is controlled and what is unfamiliar, that the body takes on a quality of the present – a transparency that allows us to see its way of acting and thinking. O Lugar do Canto está Vazio (The Place at the Corner is Empty) plays with an alternation between abstract and figurative, recognisable and strange, individual and collective, biographical and fictional. A composition of sound scores, gestures linked with words, brief narratives interrupted by movements and objects that give way to voices.
Credits
Directors, text and choreography
Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz
Cast
Angelina Mateus, Carlos Fernandes, Carlos Nery, Catarina Rico, Cristina Gonçalves, Edmundo Sardinha, Isabel Simões, João Silvestre, Jorge Leal Cardoso, Júlia Guerra, Kimberley Ribeiro, Manuela de Sousa Rama, Maria Emília Castanheira, Maria Helena Falé, Maria José Baião, Michel, Paula Bárcia e Elisa Worm.
Lighting designer
Nuno Borda D’Água
Sound and music designer
Sofia Dias
Dramaturgy assistant
Alex Cassal
Set designer
Catarina Dias
Costumes made by dressers
Ana Paula Rendeiro, Ana Sargento, Margarida Salgado, Marisa Ribeiro, Sónia Sousa, Susana Fernandes
Rehearsal director and director’s assistant
Mário Afonso
Technical director
Vítor Silva
Technical and production assistant
João Petrucci
Executive coordinator
Beatriz Jarmela
Communication consultants
Inês Lampreia
Sofia Baptista
Production
Companhia Maior
Co-production
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Centro Cultural de Belém, Materiais Diversos, Coimbra City Council / Convento São Francisco, Cineteatro Louletano, Companhia Maior
Project financed by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.
Tour 2021 produced as part of the Causa Maior project, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and “la Caixa” Foundation through the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
Companhia Maior is supported by the Lisbon City Council under RAAML and by the Parish Council of Belém.
Acknowledgements
Centro Social de Belém
Vítor Pinto
Performances
PREMIÈRE
22 – 25 November 2019
Centro Cultural de Belém
Lisbon
OPEN REHEARSAL
27 July 2021
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo
Cartaxo
FURTHER PERFORMANCES
23 July 2021
Teatro Municipal Rivoli
Porto
27 August 2021
Convento de São Francisco
Coimbra
23 September 2021
Cine-Teatro Louletano
Loulé
Photos: © Bruno Simão