Dança do Labirinto
Ricardo Jacinto
Curadoria: Nuno Crespo
Curator: Nuno Crespo
Opening - 24 OCT - 18h30
School of Arts Exhibition Room
Free admission

On October 24th, School of Arts will open the exhibition Dança do Labirinto, by Ricardo Jacinto. The opening takes place at 6.30pm in SoA Exhibition Room. The occasion will also see the presentation of his second solo album, for cello, electronics, audio feedback and resonant objects.


(...) When performing the dance figure, the dancers grab a rope. This was especially necessary in a complicated spiral dance. (...) But it must have been a long line, because very early on it turns out that “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 emerges as a design force to guide the relationship between the many bodies and times that will be summoned to its interior. An installation made of the material 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 e João Quirino