The Riddle is a dance performance inspired by the piece “First Story” from the writer João Guimarães Rosa, one of the most revolutionary and complex writers of the Brazilian literature in the twentieth century. Two men create a relationship that will only reveal itself as both go through their stories, the SERTÃO (*one of the four sub-regions of the northeast of Brazil, a really poor and dry region. But also used in this case as a portuguese language word game also meaning “being so much”) with the farmer sound, rooster crowing, wind blowing through the tree leaves.

 

But the SER-TÃO (being so much) is another! Not the one located in Minas Gerais, Bahia and Goiás (*Brazilian states). The SER-TÃO here is the emptiness amid the remnants of the heavy and subtle notes from fromVilla-Lobos, Francisco Mignone and Arthur Moreira Lima pianos. Is the solitude we all have, is the private own world of each.

 

Therefore, in this intersection, dialogues and contacts are held, so both immerse themselves in the pursuit of what changes and what remains in each other, making them primary, strong and delicate at time disruption, where the middle makes itself be the end and the river runs in physical bodies to the exhaustion to be who you are: between nothing and something, the most intimate and complete human condition in a mystery drama, coexistence and commotion.