Activity
Saturdays, 29 February, 7 March and 28 November (cancelled) 2020

Dance at the end of the month

in progress

Cesc Gelabert. Foto: Imanol Quílez

The programme for the last Saturday of every month during the first quarter of the year is dedicated to dance. Art history and museums do not consist only of objects: indeed, dance and choreography have been an inseparable part of the most radical experiments in art. In the case of Minimalism, the importance of the relationship between the object, space and body led to it being considered a new theatrical genre, while artists like Charlotte Posenenske introduced choreographic elements into their work.

This is why Dance at the end of the month will open on the last Saturday of January with Carmelo Salazar performing in the galleries of the exhibition Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress. The choreographer and dancer from the Canary Islands has made an in-depth exploration of the limits of dance from various physical experiments in which the limits of the stage are extended. On this occasion, Salazar will enter into dialogue with Posenenske’s work, its variability and the social critique it presents.

In February, Senior Curator at Tate Modern Catherine Wood will open the session with a lecture on Posenenske’s work and its transitional character, comparing it with conductors and nodes that act as transition points from one state to another. The lecture will be followed by Invisible labor (Invisible Labour) by Paz Rojo, who for more than a decade has been questioning the power of the body, dance beyond the market, anonymity and the possibilities of cultural production outside the framework of the production of value.