GUSTAVO CIRÍACO – Amanhãs de ontem

What do you learn when you open your eyes? Where does our attention wander in curiosity about the world? From what we see, what becomes knowledge, vertigo, mystery?
From the eyes to the mouth, from the mouth to the word, from the word to the ear and again to the eyes, the world is processed and through it all of us as thinking, affective, sensitive matter. Immersed in the present, we cast anchors for the future.

Amanhãs de Ontem is a choreographic project by Gustavo Ciríaco, especially conceived for the public space, that takes dance as an instance of knowledge in order to dialogue with the educational principles of world cognition.
The project is inspired by two influential pedagogical strategies that share the idea of learning as a practice for freedom – the approach of German theorist Friedrich Fröbel, inventor of the Kindergarten and his use of the game as a fundamental tool for learning the materialities at work in the world; and the perspective of the renowned Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire, who advocates a critical pedagogy in which the apprentice is considered a co-creator of knowledge.

Gustavo Ciríaco is a Brazilian choreographer and transdisciplinary artist who moves between dance and the visual arts. With a site-specific character, his works foster dialogue between context and architecture, geography and dwelling, reality and fiction, in an ongoing research into the extensive fields of dance-making. His work has been presented in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia at festivals, museums and art institutions.