DANCE, BODY AND KNOWLEDGE

Dance, like all our ability to move, is linked to our culture, our beliefs, to what we feel and what we think about ourselves and the world. It is, therefore, a knowledge as old as human memory. It has the power to reproduce and interpret movement, transforming it into a paradigm of the heritage of our everyday life and of our relationship with elegance, which draws its meaning from ethical authority.

Everything is felt in a choreography. Any step and any movement of the body, arms or feet, however minimal or anodyne it may seem, is the bearer of a telluric repercussion. Its transcendence exalts the instant that defines us as persons, specifying our singularity and elevating our “I” as unique and unrepeatable. Dance allows us to build ourselves as individuals, while rooting us as beautiful seeds of the universe.

For the Centro Coreográfico María Pagés, performers and choreographers are heirs to an ancient wisdom and knowledge about the body and its secrets, which have accompanied and participated in the construction of the complex evolution of Humanity. These creators, whose singularity relates them to the most intimate of the sacred, are also living vectors of the transmission of cultural knowledge that summons in the body the essence and the foundation of ethical beauty.

The meeting Dance, body and knowledge aims to dignify dance, in general, and flamenco dance, in particular, through a syncretic and plural reflection. It aims to generate the necessary dialogue on the nature of dance from different disciplines of thought. Bringing together choreographers and thinkers from different sectors of the human and social sciences in a common space for reflection emanates from a moral commitment to Culture in Spain.

With these meetings we want to initiate a line of work that aims to consolidate in Fuenlabrada a space and a space for reflection on dance from the epistemological knowledge and creative choreographic practice. For this it is essential that women and men who are dedicated to both fields share listening, dialogue, interaction and exchange of ideas and experiences.

Dance, body and knowledge focuses fundamentally on the bodily knowledge that makes choreography possible and transforms it into a vector of knowledge of the uses of the body and the construction of subjectivity in the practice of dance.

El Arbi El Harti
Director of the María Pagés Choreographic Center of Fuenlabrada