{"id":299,"date":"2020-07-21T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/?post_type=cpt_projectos&#038;p=299"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:31:54","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"cpt_projectos","link":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/projecto\/timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"For a Timeline to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>For a Timeline to Be<\/em> is an exercise in identifying milestones ae nd episodes in the development and dissemination of dance in Portugal. Taking the Portuguese New Dance movement as its point of departure, it interrogates the conditions of its emergence and formation\u2014across both the long and the short dur\u00e9e, spanning the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conceived and directed by Jo\u00e3o dos Santos Martins and Ana Bigotte Vieira as a collective artistic and historical research apparatus, the project began within the context of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reencontro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, featuring Jo\u00e3o dos Santos Martins, Vera Mantero, Paulo Ribeiro, Clara Andermatt, and Jo\u00e3o Fiadeiro, co-produced by Teatro Viriato in 2016. Since then, it has unfolded through seven editions and several working iterations, travelling across Portugal (see below for a detailed description of the different editions).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project combines bibliographical sources with oral testimonies, the collection of original documents with iconographic research, and the construction of narratives and relationships. It seeks to create a plural space for understanding what dance is\u2014or what it might become\u2014while fostering familiarity with works, authors, canons, corporealities, historical periods, and worldviews, questioning them from both aesthetic and political perspectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By bringing together discussions of choreographic discourse alongside the major transformations of Portuguese and international society, the project aims to highlight potential tensions, reveal iconic events and occurrences that generate both consensus and dissent, and promote a comparative analysis informed by the perspectives of decentered modernities and uneven and combined development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking the present as its site of enunciation, each edition undergoes transformations that reconfigure both the physical and methodological framework of what is presented. The project team is continuously reshaped through new collaborations, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curatorship: artists and researchers Carlos Manuel Oliveira (working editions and the fourth, fifth, and seventh editions) and Ana Dinger (seventh edition);<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research and writing: Paula Casp\u00e3o, Rita Lu\u00eds, S\u00edlvia Pinto Coelho, and Pedro Cerejo;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support for individual research projects: Desir\u00e9e Desmarattes, Diana Niepce, Angela Guerreiro, and Piny;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performances, re-enactments, and original commissions: works by Ana Borralho &amp; Jo\u00e3o Galante; Ant\u00f3nio Olaio, reinterpreted by V\u00e2nia Rovisco; Cl\u00e1udia Dias; Diana Niepce; Francis Gra\u00e7a, revisited by Cristina Gra\u00e7a with students from the Escola Superior de Dan\u00e7a (ESD); Gaya de Medeiros and Ary Zara; Jo\u00e3o Fiadeiro; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almada<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by Lu\u00eds Guerra; Marlene Monteiro Freitas; Miguel Pereira; Norman Dixon, revisited by Andr\u00e9 Cabral; Olga Roriz&#8217;s work for the Gulbenkian Ballet, restaged by Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB); Paula Massano, revisited by Margarida Bettencourt, Ana Rita Palmeirim, Carlos Z\u00edngaro, Paulo Gra\u00e7a, and Nuno Carinhas; Sofia Neuparth; and Vera Mantero&#8217;s work, restaged by the CNB. The project has also collaborated with the Escola de Dan\u00e7a do Conservat\u00f3rio Nacional, the Escola Superior de Dan\u00e7a, and the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With each exhibition or event, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a Timeline to Be<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seeks to create the conditions for encounters within an expanded community that understands the past as part of the present, questioning it in ways that open up possible futures and contribute to world-making. A complete list of all collaborators can be found in the project&#8217;s Technical Credits (see below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cat_projectos":[92],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_projectos\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_projectos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_projectos"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_projectos","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_projectos?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}