Dance professionals from Amazonas promote meeting in Manaus

The 2nd Meeting of Dance Professionals from Amazonas begins on July 11th with an opening at Teatro Amazonas and runs until the 15th with programs at the Palácio Rio Negro Cultural Center. The event has free admission, and aims to dialogue with dance artists from the state, and mainly from the city of Manaus.

The program will feature proposals for lectures, tables and debates that discuss the importance of this segment in the construction of cultural management related to dance, as well as important themes for the daily practice of art.

The Encounter intends not to focus only on technical dance, which consists of contemporary and classical, but also to include people from urban, folkloric, international dances, among other different styles.

Wallace Heldon, Production Coordinator of the II Dance Professionals Meeting, spoke a little about the objective of the initiative.

“The importance of this project is to provide opportunities and bring together this whole range of artists who work with dance in the state and be able to dialogue with them about art, for a better execution of our work.”

At the end of the program, the artists will also, through the Permanent Forum, discuss the holding of the Amazon Dance Festival, which is organized by the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy, and discuss its holding in 2023.

“We will have guidelines on incentive laws, and we are also inviting important artists to the current dance scenario in Amazonas, who help build the art segment in the state”,

Wallace pointed out.

“The Encounter is the moment when all the branches of this art meet in one place to talk specifically about dance, as it is our starting point, and how we proceed with it afterwards is what makes us artists”,

stated.

All the people invited to the performances, lectures and tables were chosen by the Amazonas Dance Forum in a vote based on suggestions from the state’s own artists, so that it would be possible to cover a greater number of dance segments.

The II Meeting of Dance Professionals in Amazonas is organized by the Dance Forum with the support of the Levante MAO Movement, the Dance Corps of Amazonas and the Government of Amazonas, through the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy.

Check out the full event schedule below:

July 11 – Teatro Amazonas

8 pm – Opening Ceremony with Corpo de Dança do Amazonas – CDA and Cia Expressão & Vida.

Master of ceremonies: Leo Scantbelruy

July 12 – Palácio Rio Negro Cultural Center

5 pm – Lecture Music for dance: understanding about technical resources and creation processes with DJ Marcos Tubarão.

6:15 pm – Performance with DDTankers Group

6:30 pm – TABLE 01 – Dance production, needs and challenges – A look at the local panorama, with Edgar Damasco, Everton Almeida and Ana Carolina Souza and mediation by Rosana Baré.

July 13 – Palácio Rio Negro Cultural Center

5 pm – Lecture on incentive laws and cultural projects with Everton Almeida.

6:15 pm – Performance with Francis Baiardi

6:30 pm – TABLE 02 – Independent cultural spaces for dance, management and cultural production under discussion, with Paulo Mendes, Iran Lamego and Muriel Gonçalves, with mediation by Talita Menezes.

July 14 – Palácio Rio Negro Cultural Center

5 pm – Lecture “Experiencing urban dances and their realities” with Miguel Maia

6:15 pm – Performance with Lucas Rocha and Vanessa Viana.

6:30 pm – TABLE 03 – Curatorship for dance: cultural mediation as a parameter of choices, with Fábio Moura, Francis Madson, Marcos Veniciu and mediation by Rodrigo Vieira.

July 15 – Palácio Rio Negro Cultural Center

10:30 am – Lecture “Cultural Memory” with Adalto Xavier

2 pm – Lecture “Bodies in transit” with Lena Wildes

3:15 pm – Performance with Kashmir

3:30 pm – Workshop The use of accessibility tools in dance productions, with Andrei Dreli and Joyce Belleza.

4:45 pm – Performance with Panorando

5 pm – Dialogues on the programming of the Amazonas Dance Festival – FAD 2023, with mediation by the Permanent Forum of Dance of Amazonas, through the president and counselor of the State Council of Culture André Durand.

*With advisory information

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