ExhibitionApril 1, 2021
DANCE?
The Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno just opened the exhibition DANCE?, a project on an international scale with which the art center delves into the dance discipline to explore and question the choreographic mechanisms themselves as a system of artistic representation. From the transdisciplinary nature of current creation, this innovative exhibition investigates the territories and dance methods for the first time in Spain and their correlation with the visual arts and contemporary museum space.
The exhibition brings together a selection of works by 44 artists from the Canary Islands and from different countries on the European, African and American continents, from various public and private cultural institutions. Its curator is the choreographer, visual artist, and ex-Gran Canaria dancer living in Paris, Gabriel Hernández.
DANCE? is the great thematic research project of 2021 at the CAAM and the largest exhibition on this subject organized in Europe on this scale. It will occupy all its exhibition rooms, including the five floors of its main headquarters and the San Antonio Abad space. From their performative nature, eight dancers from the Canary Islands, selected in an audition coordinated by the choreographer Xavier Le Roy, will activate four of the works that are part of the show, throughout the 16 weeks of the exhibition, from 26 March to 18 July 2021, every day except Tuesday, at different times.
The curator of the exhibition, Gabriel Hernández, said: “… the question that accompanies the term Dance and that gives our exhibition its title is not exactly a question. Many times, the question involves an essentialization that questions all kinds of variation or mutation. As for me, the question mark indicates the resistance that the Dance itself opposes to any attempt for a categorical definition of its “essence.” Like so many things, Dance is also the owner of a future that questions its own form.”
For more information, visit: https://www.caam.net/es/expos.php
The exhibition brings together a selection of works by 44 artists from the Canary Islands and from different countries on the European, African and American continents, from various public and private cultural institutions. Its curator is the choreographer, visual artist, and ex-Gran Canaria dancer living in Paris, Gabriel Hernández.
DANCE? is the great thematic research project of 2021 at the CAAM and the largest exhibition on this subject organized in Europe on this scale. It will occupy all its exhibition rooms, including the five floors of its main headquarters and the San Antonio Abad space. From their performative nature, eight dancers from the Canary Islands, selected in an audition coordinated by the choreographer Xavier Le Roy, will activate four of the works that are part of the show, throughout the 16 weeks of the exhibition, from 26 March to 18 July 2021, every day except Tuesday, at different times.
The curator of the exhibition, Gabriel Hernández, said: “… the question that accompanies the term Dance and that gives our exhibition its title is not exactly a question. Many times, the question involves an essentialization that questions all kinds of variation or mutation. As for me, the question mark indicates the resistance that the Dance itself opposes to any attempt for a categorical definition of its “essence.” Like so many things, Dance is also the owner of a future that questions its own form.”
For more information, visit: https://www.caam.net/es/expos.php
