The book accompanying the exhibition dance not dance – archaeologies of the new dance in Portugal, which will run from November 2024 to January 2025, proposes two crossings of the 20th and early 21st centuries: one through an atlas of images, reproducing hundreds of documents, and the other through a series of essays and conversations. Compiling research on different dance manifestations in the country during this same period, the book contributes to the exercise of tracing archaeologies for what was called, in the 1990s, New Portuguese Dance.

Designed by Ana Baliza, in collaboration with Mariana Veloso, the book includes contributions from various artists and researchers, including republications and unpublished texts, as well as a vast number of documents from various sources (public and private archives, many personal or from dance structures in the country).

This book is part of the extended programme initiated by the cycle of (re)performances, talks and films, curated by Ana Bigotte Vieira, Ana Dinger, Carlos Manuel Oliveira and João dos Santos Martins.