Dança do Labirinto
Ricardo Jacinto
Curator: Nuno Crespo
Opening - 24 OCT - 19h00
School of Arts Exhibition Room
Free admission

Conversation with the artist: December 12th - 6pm


(...) When performing the dance figure, the dancers grabbed a rope. This was especially necessary in a complicated spiral dance. (...) But it must have been a long line, because very early on “they danced group against group, one against the other”. This necessarily happened when the line had to turn on itself in the curvature of a spiral meander line, or in the complicated figure of a labyrinth with a path of circumvolutions: those who danced at the front of the line moved parallel but in the opposite direction to those who came behind. (...)”

* about the Labyrinth Dance in “Labyrinth Studies” by Károly Kerényi (Translated by Pedro A.H. Paixão)
Ed. Assírio Alvim (2008)

Under the title “Dance of the Labyrinth”, Ricardo Jacinto is presenting a new installation in the exhibition gallery of the School of Arts. This is a project in which the ancestral figure of the labyrinth appears as a design force to guide the relationship between the many bodies, ghosts and times that will be summoned to its interior. An installation made from the matter of many songs, or perhaps a dance to infinite noise.

The opening day will also see the presentation of his second solo album, for cello, electronics, audio feedback and resonant objects.
 

Credits: Bruno Lopes