The Musicians of the Tagus and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

The Musicians of the Tagus and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, united by their love for the Baroque, the 17th and 18th centuries, dance, dance music, birds, texts about dance, texts that speak of marvelous dances, dance teachers who play the violin and compose dance melodies for their students, rituals where ministers and ambassadors had to dance correctly at the very least, and elegantly at the very most, but without, even so, having to compare themselves to the king with a capital letter who, indeed, had the most elegant step, the perfect behavior upon which everything was modeled, treatises in which the unrecorded was almost as beautiful as the burnt relief engraving on ribbed paper, textual labyrinths, text turned into image, the rhythmic repetition of words, the excess of forms where everything is wind, flame, movement and bodies contort in mystical ecstasies in a metamorphosis Captured midway in an eternal continuum, they wish to construct a path that can be seen as if from the outside, that can be sensed in the smell as to whether it is right or wrong, that provokes an agitation that is simultaneously internal and external, profound and superficial, combining music and dance in homage to those who danced to stay alive, relevant in the state of the nation-state, decisive in the art of court metaphysics, alone before the eyes of all.