Olga Roriz - Narrativas do Corpo

“It seems I’m running away from my body,” wrote Olga Roriz in the notebook that accompanied the creation of The Rite of Spring, a solo she composed for herself. It was the last time she danced… but it’s far from her farewell to dance. Olga immersed herself in the excess of feeling, through dance, at the São Carlos Theatre opera house, as a young girl. That was only the beginning of a journey marked by a sensitive intensity, a desire to understand the world, where the body became the canvas for many narratives. It is this intimate relationship, in which she developed a thought about the body and composition in dance over more than 50 years, that this book records, revealing a lesser-known side of the choreographer: the structuring of her work around concepts, such as the idea of ​​a “post-mimetic dance,” the persistent rejection of the dancer-machine, “research outside of thought,” “points of attraction,” or even the approach to creation as an “object of desire.”