PROJETO CONTINUADO (2015)

In 2011 I had the opportunity of participate, in a pedagogic context, in the reinterpretation of the piece Continuous Project Altered Daily (1970), by Yvone Rainer, from available archives and artists testimonials. On that moment, work tensions appeared and they would come to materialize in the piece itself: a work process transformed in aesthetic experience that claimed the choreographic labour as an artistic product. It was literally about the way a group of individuals interacted and negotiated a set of actions together, in a process that was both naturalized and induced choreographically. In this continued project we give following to this "idea" of choreography as technology that verifies, activates and transforms relations between individuals. Appealing to objects of the history of dance, to their context and ideologies, and to their relationship with music, we sought to reconsider and operate in a way as the choreography and the dance establish ideological patterns that lay down or put in question the dominant ethic and aesthetic systems.
João dos Santos Martins