For the edition of Public Hall 2026, the Centro de Investigación del Museo Tamayo in collaboration with Magdalena Leite, Aníbal Conde and the la Compañía Juvenil de Danza Contemporánea de la UNAM (DAJU-UNAM), invite students, artists, choreographers, dancers, writers, historians and researchers interested in choreographic and performance practice to be part of the study group The body in the museum. This project, coordinated by Magdalena Leite and Aníbal Conde, proposes to delve into the various choreographic and performance presentations made as part of the Museo Tamayo's exhibition program from 1987 to 2016.

Based on the exploration of documents, photographic and video records, curatorial texts and hemerographic notes, kept in the Research Center, the historical development of ideas around the choreographic and the corporeal, in relation to museum spaces as qualified spaces, will be reviewed through almost forty years of museum history.

As a result of Leite and Conde's research sessions and methodological approach,¹ a choreographic score will be formed that will be activated in the museum spaces. Over the course of a week, work sessions will be held in the Museum's Educational Room, –which will include documentary review, collective discussion and review of choreographic creation methodologies–- in order for participants to develop an approach to the archive based on the methodology of The body in the museum, with the guardianship of its creators.

This project is possible thanks to the collaboration of the la Compañía Juvenil de Danza Contemporánea de la UNAM, and the Museo Tamayo.

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Practical Information ‍

The program consists of three face-to-face work sessions (with essential assistance to all):

Monday, August 31
Wednesday, September 2
Friday, September 4

Schedule: 15 to 18 h

Venue: Educational Room of the Museo Tamayo

Public presentation: Saturday, September 5, 10 h

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¹ This work methodology was the winner of the Concurso de Creación, Investigación y Archivo Pimentón 2024 at the Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo, Uruguay, and is being presented for the first time in our country, by the Compañía Juvenil de Danza Contemporánea de la UNAM.

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Participation requirements:

- Fill out the registration form: https://forms.gle/NPgM9HbYtgArKXYE9 and attach a brief curricular outline that gives an account of your relationship with the dance, choreographic and/or performance field.
- Deadline to complete registration: August 26, 2026
- It is essential to be available to attend all sessions of the Seminar. Missing a session will cause a definitive cancellation.
- Time must be available to prepare the presentation. These times will be agreed with the choreographers and the group.
- Space limited to ten participants.
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The results will be announced on August 28, 2026 through our social networks and via email.

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About Public Hall

The Tamayo Museum Research Center, through its Public Room program, seeks to consolidate collective platforms for reflection and discussion on the contents of its archive, as a way of diversifying the audiences that approach its bibliographic, documentary and multimedia collection. It also fights for the construction of spaces for the socialization of knowledge through seminars open to the public, given by people responsible for specialized projects, of a relevant nature in the contemporary art scene.

Public Hall: The Body in the Museum is coordinated by Abril Zales, Nicolás Poggi, Magdalena Leite, Aníbal Conde and Saúl Quiroz, in collaboration with DAJU-UNAM.

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Sessions

Duration: three sessions, eight hours in total
Modality: Seminar on reflection and choreographic composition
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Session 1. The Body and the Expanded Choreography (three hours)‍

Introduction to the notion of Body in the museum and the movement of choreography from the stage to the field of visual arts. The relationships between body, image, exhibition space and choreographic thought will be addressed, based on cases and references from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Session 2. The body at the Tamayo Museum (three hours)

In this session we will delve into the cases found in the Tamayo Museum and the peculiarities of the score to be activated by the DAJU performers. All the works found will be shared and an analysis will be made of the singularities of the uses of the body on each occasion.

Session 3. Choreography, Body and Ecological Perspective (two hours)

The relationship between choreography, posthumanist thinking and the eco/queer/trans/feminist perspective will be addressed, paying particular attention to the body as a territory, to the immaterial materialities of choreography and the problem of archiving the living. The notion of choreographic twist to think about their powers at the present time.

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