Uma Timeline a Haver
Event
Knowing the History of Dance in Portugal, today, involves us thinking today in a global space, crossed and in relationship. The historical, social and political dimension summoned in the exhibition project Para uma Timeline a Haver — genealogias da dança enquanto prática artística em Portugal (For a timeline to be - genealogies of dance as an artistic practice in Portugal) in Portugal that we present at the Foyers of the Serralves Auditorium, integrated in the 6th Edition of Festival DDD, will certainly contribute to do so, to deepen our knowledge of this field.
From a reflection on the present, the team who created the exhibition built a complex historical and artistic methodology that led it to a deep and multidisciplinary investigation, always underway, on the creative, philosophical and symbolic processes that marked Dance in the 20th century and early 21st century, in the country.
Para uma Timeline a Haver — genealogias da dança enquanto prática artística em Portugal is a collective exercise that signals landmarks related to the development and dissemination of dance as an artistic practice in Portugal in the 20th and 21st centuries. Developed intermittently since 2016 and assuming the present as a place of enunciation, each edition undergoes mutations that lead to a physical and methodological reconfiguration of what is exhibited. It combines bibliographic sources with listening to testimonies, collecting original documents with iconographic research, drawing narratives and relationships, seeking to create a multiple place for the understanding of what dance is or can be, and proposing a familiarity with works, authors, “canons”, corporealities, eras and worldviews, questioning them aesthetically and politically.
From a reflection on the present, the team who created the exhibition built a complex historical and artistic methodology that led it to a deep and multidisciplinary investigation, always underway, on the creative, philosophical and symbolic processes that marked Dance in the 20th century and early 21st century, in the country.
Para uma Timeline a Haver — genealogias da dança enquanto prática artística em Portugal is a collective exercise that signals landmarks related to the development and dissemination of dance as an artistic practice in Portugal in the 20th and 21st centuries. Developed intermittently since 2016 and assuming the present as a place of enunciation, each edition undergoes mutations that lead to a physical and methodological reconfiguration of what is exhibited. It combines bibliographic sources with listening to testimonies, collecting original documents with iconographic research, drawing narratives and relationships, seeking to create a multiple place for the understanding of what dance is or can be, and proposing a familiarity with works, authors, “canons”, corporealities, eras and worldviews, questioning them aesthetically and politically.
