In this meeting we take another step forward in the conceptualization of our DanzaForum program. If in the first sessions we have focused our attention on the creative identity of some choreographic creators, in this last one we concentrate on the collective memory, understood as the set of material and immaterial representations that make us what we are: a singular society that projects itself daily in the universal singularity.

Jorge Luis Borges, who knew much of what he intuited, said that societies “are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of inconstant forms, that heap of broken mirrors“.

The work on memory emanates from the consciousness of societies to write the present in order to preserve, protect and treasure it.  It is a way of preserving its vitality and wisdom and our way of surviving death and permanently forging the eternal nature of humanity.

This necessary and decisive dialectic between the Self and the World constitutes the basis of what we are and of what we are going to transmit to immediate and universal humanity.

The meeting that brings together María Pages, Javier de Dios and Machús Osinaga, precisely, wants to think about memory from the ethical requirement of preserving and promoting it.

Undoubtedly, culture is all of us. Protecting its memory is the responsibility of public and private institutions. Always within the framework of a convergent collective project and vision.

El Arbi El Harti
Director of the CCMP