YESTERDAY’S TOMORROWS will explore how the everyday activities and sensations of the body are involved in learning and how choreographic processes can be utilised to creatively explore our understanding of education.
Participants will be invited to engage in playful interactions with each other and their surroundings, both in the studio and outdoors, transforming these spaces into experimental arenas for movement, text, and choreography. These improvisational scores are drawn from Gustavo’s soon to be premiered short performances for the public space.
This workshop would be suitable for anyone interested in the production of knowledge and art. This could be teachers working in schools, colleges or university contexts, people with a background in performing and visual arts or in pedagogy. Professional dancers, choreographers, community arts facilitators or even practitioners from fields such as architecture sociology and philosophy would find this opportunity enriching.
Between the vertigo of the unknown and the lucidity of manipulating matter, how do we process this today, the future of a past made present, this tomorrow of yesterday? Gustavo Ciríaco
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YESTERDAY’S TOMORROWS explores the realms of curiosity and knowledge in our perception of the world. Drawing inspiration from the educational philosophies of Friedrich Fröbel and Paulo Freire, this creative laboratory led by Brazilian choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco delves into the kinetic and sensitive dimensions of learning.
Fröbel’s emphasis on toys and games as fundamental tools and Freire’s decolonial approach of learners being co-creators of knowledge; form the basis for this exploration. The workshop, focusing on dance as a medium of knowledge, seeks to connect these pedagogical universes.
The class navigates the common ground of autonomy in learning, intertwining the practical knowledge embedded in participants’ daily lives. Through this, the performing arts engage in a dialogue with libertarian pedagogies, offering a unique platform for the investigation, performance, and exploration of educational principles.
By weaving together these perspectives, YESTERDAY’S TOMORROWS aims to create common paths of discovery in the world of knowledge and creativity.
Gustavo Ciríaco is a Brazilian choreographer and multimedia artist based in Lisbon. Originally trained in Political Sciences, he transitioned to the performing and visual arts. In his artworks he often dialogues with the surrounding historical, material and affective contexts, often manifested in site responsive projects blending architecture, landscape and fiction.
Spanning exhibition and installation projects, staged pieces, site-specific and open-air projects, his recent focus explores the interplay of imagination, speculative narrative, and the choreographic’s potential contribution to curatorial practices in museums. Having worked worldwide, including Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, his diverse projects have been showcased in prestigious venues such as FIAF/N.York, Casa Encendida/Madrid, Serralves Museum/Porto, TWS/Tokyo, Battersea Arts Centre/London, Panorama/Rio, Liverpool Biennial, Bienalsur/Buenos Aires, DAC/Taipei, San Art/Saigon, Bienal de Danza de Havana and Tanz im August/Berlin, among others.