Quasar Dance Company: the Expression of Modernity in Goias

Abstract

The need for questioning and challenging the system in Goiânia in the 1970s is reflected in the dancing body. The body is asked to seek new forms of movement that challenge the imprisonment imposed by classic techniques and that express protest and the desire for change, giving the body freedom of expression and of creation. At the end of the 1980s, Quasar Dance Company started to compose a new aesthetic form to the vocabulary of dance in Goias. Their way of dancing became known worldwide, as it presented a provoking conception and aesthetics of dance that leads us into knowing it and interpreting it. KEY WORDS: Dance - Art - Post-Modernity - Culture.