Triz

‘Triz’, by the Brazilian company Grupo Corpo, presents a symphony of bodies and strings in black and white. Life by a thread (thrix in Greek), with its highs and lows, its intense moments and breaths, order and chaos.

The feeling of having the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head by the hair of a horse’s tail was so strong during the creative period of the choreography that it became its main creative theme and the inspiration for the title, ‘TRIZ’, an onomatopoeic word that originates from the Greek word ‘thrix’/’trikhós’ (hair); here, ‘by a thread’ or ‘by a hair’. While recovering from an operation on a tendon in his shoulder, Rodrigo Pederneiras also had to undergo an operation on the meniscus of his left knee. His leg was still immobilised when he began rehearsals. For a worried ex-dancer, used to choreographing by demonstrating each movement with his body, these physical constraints had a huge influence on the creative process. 

To stimulate the creation of the music, Lenine himself placed the Sword of Damocles above his head, such was the challenge of constructing a musical topography cut through with rhythmic subversions (his passion), based on a single leitmotif. From berimbau to balalaika, from violin to guitar, sitar to rebec, tampura to mandoline, the abundance of strings populates and brings depth to the musical tessitura of ‘TRIZ’ – as well as its central theme – and to the sonic possibilities it pushes to their limits.