Cia. de Dança Palácio das Artes: movimentos de uma dança de resistência

Abstract

This article refers to the official dance company named Cia de Dança Palácio das Arte – CDPA located in the city of Belo Horizonte, under the perspective of the contemporary theatrical dance transformations movements for which the Cia has been recreated in its continuous professional process for more than four decades of existence, and resistance. In order to do so, an analysis is proposed observing some of the experiences contained in his technical-artistic and reflexive procedures throughout his artistic trajectory. As an intermediation of the analyzed transformations a parallel is drawn between the experience developed by the CDPA and the understanding of experience contained in Walter Benjamin’s essay untitled "The Narrator". The author understands experience becomes knowledge by accumulation, extension and unfolding of this experience. This article proposes the understanding that, despite of being the Official Dance Company the CDPA does not see itself exempt from facing challenges, remaining in the scene with dynamics of a dance that may be understood as movements of continuous resistance and in interaction with the context commonly present in contemporary theatrical dance.