CONVERSAS COM ARTISTAS | OLGA RORIZ

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Conversations with Artists: Olga Roriz
After all, can we talk at the Theater?

In 2024, we invited artists who pass through Theatro Circo to talk to us about their work, their creative processes and the importance of their activity for us, the public, and for us, the institution.

In our first conversation, on January 6, the guest is the dancer and choreographer Olga Roriz, who, the following week, brings to the stage, A Hora em que Não Sabíamos Nada Uns dos Outros (January 12).

Born in Viana do Castelo, her artistic training in dance was at the Escola de Dança do Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos with Ana Ivanova and at the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa.

From 1976 to 1992 she was a member of the cast of the Gulbenkian Ballet under the direction of Jorge Salavisa, where she was prima ballerina and principal choreographer. She worked with renowned choreographers such as Alvin Nokolais, Jiri Kylián, Louis Falco, Hans Van Manen, Vasco Wellemkamp, Karine Saporta, Lar Lubovitch, Peter Sparling, Elisa Monte and Christopher Bruce.
In May 1992 he took over as artistic director of the Lisbon Dance Company.
In February 1995 she founded Companhia Olga Roriz, of which she is director and choreographer.
Her repertoire in dance, theater and video consists of more than 90 works, including the plays Treze Gestos de um Corpo, Isolda, Casta Diva, Pedro e Inês, Propriedade Privada, Electra, Pets, A Cidade e A Sagração da Primavera.

She has created and restaged pieces for a vast number of national and international companies, including Ballet Gulbenkian and Companhia Nacional de Bailado (Portugal), Ballet Teatro Guaira (Brazil), Ballets de Monte Carlo (Monaco), Ballet Nacional de España, English National Ballet (England), American Reportory Ballet (USA), Maggio Danza and Alla Scala (Italy). Internationally, her work has been presented in the main European capitals, as well as in the USA, Brazil, Japan, Egypt, Cape Verde, Senegal, Thailand, Macau, Mozambique and South Korea.
She has a long track record of creating movement for theater and opera.

In the field of video, she has made three films, Felicitações Madame, A Sesta and Interiores.
Several of his works have been released on DVD by Real Ficção, directed by Rui Simões.

An extensive biography of her life and work was published in 2006 by Assírio&Alvim with a text by Mónica Guerreiro.

Since 1982 Olga Roriz has been honored with important national and foreign awards. These include the 1st Prize at the Osaka Dance Competition in Japan (1988), the Best Choreography Award from the Londrina Time-Out Magazine (1993), the Almada Prize (2004), the Award of the Order of Infante D. Henrique – Grand Officer by the President of the Republic (2004), the Grand Prize from the Portuguese Society of Authors and Millenium bcp (2008), the Latinity Prize (2012), among other equally important awards.

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