a coleção do meu pai (my fathers's collection)
2023 – 2033
2027
2029
2031
My Father's Collection opens a new cycle of artistic production by choreographer Cláudia Dias. A series of five creations that the artist will develop over 10 years from the book collection of her father, Anselmo Dias. In particular, it explores the works of neo-realist authors, honouring the work of writers who mapped the social and political issues of generations. Cláudia Dias, who grew up alongside this collection, calls it her ‘big sister’. And it is from this point of affection that she will return to a central issue in her work - the intersection between individual history and collective history. In this case, her father and family memories, and the work of writers who have mapped the social and political issues that condition everyone's lives. Ferreira de Castro will be the author addressed in this first creation.
The choreographer intends to deepen the relationship between contemporary dance and literature, in a natural progression in her career. The aim is not to write original texts, but to glean and reorder the words of others, in an approach to the ‘Cut-up’ technique.
It also uses its methodological tool, the technique in Real Time Composition (CTR). To this end, the project relies on the improvisation practice group - GPI, which it set up at the beginning of 2022 in Almada, and which brings together 10 people from different backgrounds with an interest in CTR and research into creative processes, which underpins the project with an antechamber of research and experimentation into the materials to be imported into the core of creation.
a coleção do meu pai (my father's collection)
2023 – 2033
My Father's Collection opens a new cycle of artistic production by choreographer Cláudia Dias. A series of five creations that the artist will develop over 10 years from the book collection of her father, Anselmo Dias. In particular, it explores the works of neo-realist authors, honouring the work of writers who mapped the social and political issues of generations. Cláudia Dias, who grew up alongside this collection, calls it her ‘big sister’. And it is from this point of affection that she will return to a central issue in her work - the intersection between individual history and collective history. In this case, her father and family memories, and the work of writers who have mapped the social and political issues that condition everyone's lives. Ferreira de Castro will be the author addressed in this first creation.
The choreographer intends to deepen the relationship between contemporary dance and literature, in a natural progression in her career. The aim is not to write original texts, but to glean and reorder the words of others, in an approach to the ‘Cut-up’ technique.
It also uses its methodological tool, the technique in Real Time Composition (CTR). To this end, the project relies on the improvisation practice group - GPI, which it set up at the beginning of 2022 in Almada, and which brings together 10 people from different backgrounds with an interest in CTR and research into creative processes, which underpins the project with an antechamber of research and experimentation into the materials to be imported into the core of creation.
My Father's Collection opens a new cycle of artistic production by choreographer Cláudia Dias. A series of five creations that the artist will develop over 10 years from the book collection of her father, Anselmo Dias. In particular, it explores the works of neo-realist authors, honouring the work of writers who mapped the social and political issues of generations. Cláudia Dias, who grew up alongside this collection, calls it her ‘big sister’. And it is from this point of affection that she will return to a central issue in her work - the intersection between individual history and collective history. In this case, her father and family memories, and the work of writers who have mapped the social and political issues that condition everyone's lives. Ferreira de Castro will be the author addressed in this first creation.
