Book Apresentation
Choreographies: Essays on Dance and Philosophy, by Né Barros
25 Sep
/ 18h00
Ponto C - Penafiel
Ponto C - Penafiel
Choreographer, dancer, co-founder of balleteatro, and researcher with the Aesthetics, Politics and Knowledge research group at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, Né Barros, presents her latest book, Choreographies: Essays on Dance and Philosophy.
In this book, Né Barros "conceives the dancing body as a body-poem: free, incommunicable, and immersed in silence. Dance emerges as a vital and ethical gesture, a form of thought and resistance, capable of restoring our humanity."
The event will feature a conversation with the author in an encounter that brings together dance, thought, and writing.
Book Synopsis
The small dancing body asks for nothing more than what it is, yet its life is intimately connected to everything that gives it a face. The figure that may emerge from it is a carnal figure that finds, in poetry, the highest expression of its singularity: I am quiet; I am silence; I am incommunicable. To think about art is to think about the many forms of writing that enable us to speak to the world. Choreography is intertwined with and shaped by multiple histories, each deserving to be discerned and explored, felt and distinguished. It is perhaps through this process that a writing of dance interrupts a logic of function and dysfunction in order to engage with a politics of form. The texts gathered here traverse and inscribe an unease linked to the creative act in its fullest discursive scope—from the creator to the critic. They accompany different moments of personal maturation but, above all, were written in distinct social and political contexts. Faced with a world marked by so many calamities and challenges, we do not expect art to save us—that is not its role—but rather to endure and to confront us with the harm we inflict upon the world. Let it do so through resistance, for not everything can be replaced or transmitted. Choreography, or a form of writing that will also resist its transformation into mere reading.
Né Barros
In this book, Né Barros "conceives the dancing body as a body-poem: free, incommunicable, and immersed in silence. Dance emerges as a vital and ethical gesture, a form of thought and resistance, capable of restoring our humanity."
The event will feature a conversation with the author in an encounter that brings together dance, thought, and writing.
Book Synopsis
The small dancing body asks for nothing more than what it is, yet its life is intimately connected to everything that gives it a face. The figure that may emerge from it is a carnal figure that finds, in poetry, the highest expression of its singularity: I am quiet; I am silence; I am incommunicable. To think about art is to think about the many forms of writing that enable us to speak to the world. Choreography is intertwined with and shaped by multiple histories, each deserving to be discerned and explored, felt and distinguished. It is perhaps through this process that a writing of dance interrupts a logic of function and dysfunction in order to engage with a politics of form. The texts gathered here traverse and inscribe an unease linked to the creative act in its fullest discursive scope—from the creator to the critic. They accompany different moments of personal maturation but, above all, were written in distinct social and political contexts. Faced with a world marked by so many calamities and challenges, we do not expect art to save us—that is not its role—but rather to endure and to confront us with the harm we inflict upon the world. Let it do so through resistance, for not everything can be replaced or transmitted. Choreography, or a form of writing that will also resist its transformation into mere reading.
Né Barros
September 2026
October 2026
