The Cycle of Talks “My Dance History” is a project created in 2011, by O Rumo do Fumo and Forum Dança, where personalities connected to contemporary dance are invited to publicly share their History of Dance.
“All of us, dancers, choreographers or performers, receive somehow, through different means, more academic or more self-taught, an idea of the History of Dance, or the History of the Performing Arts, from which we feel we ‘descend’ (and perhaps we feel we descend from several Histories at the same time!). There were certainly choreographic or scenic creators that made us understand the art we make the way we understand it today. Each one has a specific idea of how this History unfolded, and for each one there are certain artists and certain artistic movements that helped shaping the idea of dance that one has and practices and that, somehow, is answering to that History. These lectures will give us the opportunity to know the History of Dance, that each person has created within her/himself.”
Vera Mantero
Website My Dance History available at aminhahistoriadadanca.com
The lecture cycle My Dance History is develloped by Forum Dança and O Rumo do Fumo, structuces financed by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / Direcção-Geral das Artes. This project is supported by Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Direcção Municipal da Cultura / Divisão da Rede de Bibliotecas, and co-financed by Garantir Cultura, Compete 2020, Portugal 2020 and European Union through European Regional Development Fund – ERDF.