The 2nd edition of A Collection for Tomorrow, curated by Cristina Peres and directed by João Afonso Vaz, dedicates 10 conversations to the dance scene in Mozambique. A program in partnership with Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo, with the institutional support of Camões, I.P. and decor support by Around the Tree.
The imposition of social distance brought us other possibilities to generate improbable encounters. It revealed ideas and questions we hadn't asked yet - about the resonance of experiences beyond the time when they took place - and suggested that we talk.
So, we perfused the months of 2021 with A Collection for Tomorrow - ten conversations with ten people invited to reflect on creation, world, art, and politics and to follow this unique movement taking place over the last thirty or forty years and bringing us here.
Along the way, we have influenced each other. In 2022, and because dance travels, goes back and forth, and makes comparisons, we want to transform the imaginary bridge standing between Lisbon and Maputo, as well as going through the inverse route, by publishing the second collection of conversations. When do we discover things which are better than ourselves, at the same time that we discover in ourselves traces of what we imagined to be others'?
Lisbon and Maputo are cities connected by the marks of those who have woven invisible threads associating the body's memory to all the other memories we will bring together, now in a systematized way, resulting in a new collection of conversations.
Cristina Peres, 2022
Part I
Quito Tembe I am a mirror of the issue of professionalization of art in Maputo
Part II
Maria Helena Pinto Dance has become a political path
Part III
Panaibra Canda This Mozambique is full of diversity
Part IV
Edna Jaime Artivism - my work impacts the world
Part V
Pak Ndjamena Persist, insist, go back, and...it happens!
Part VI
Ídio Chichava Emancipate Mozambique
Part VII
Horácio Macuácua I didn't choose dance. Dance chose me.
Part VIII
Mariana Tembe To keep a dialogue with the world
Part IX
Edivaldo Ernesto My whole life influences what I do on stage
PART X
Yuck Miranda What drives me in art is indignation
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You can see the whole collection here.
