MEETINGS ON DANCE AND ART HISTORY. 

We are witnessing a transcendental historical period for Culture, Culture with capital letters, the one that condenses, filters and distills in all its manifestations what shapes us as human beings, with all our greatness and our miseries. We have never been so aware of our need for it, as if we had just discovered that, in the face of uncertainty, Culture is the stable ground beneath our feet.

For those of us who live by and for that Culture, contemplating Europe clamoring to keep open museums, concert halls or scenic spaces, means witnessing a tragedy in which, for once, we are protagonists. Nevertheless, and in spite of the dark shades with which it is dressed, we can glimpse something hopeful: the conception of Culture, at last, as a unit, as a complex organism where each expression fulfills its function through its individuality and its relationship with the others. Interdisciplinarity, that concept so often used in recent decades in the academic world, but so little understood and put into practice, becomes present in a natural way when Culture as a unity is threatened.

From the space of dance, one more of the multiple languages through which Culture expresses itself, we want -and we must- delve into this interconnection between the arts, reflect on the links that connect it to the written word, to visual culture, to staging or music. Narrativity or the absence of it, the expression of complex ideas or the induction of pure emotion, the search for beauty or the grotesque, are searches shared by all the arts, drinking from each other. Let us consider, then, this moment as an opportunity for reflection and dialogue between the arts, the milestone that allows us to free ourselves from barriers and enclosures that only lead to narrow the pathways of knowledge and endanger our cultural heritage of which dance is, of course, a member in its own right.