The Ministry of Culture promotes a “own room” for dance | EUROtoday

“Dance already has its own room within the Ministry of Culture,” declared this morning Paz Santa Cecilia, director of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). And thus formally introduced the Dance Diffusion Office (ODD), a brand new group created to encourage and promote dance. The assertion mirrored seen pleasure in Santa Cecilia at being fulfilled one of many goals of the long-awaited reform of the INAEM, which though it was formally introduced in February 2025, has been suspected behind the scenes for many years. “Paz has reminded me from the beginning of the need for dance to stop being the poor sister of the arts. Also Getsemaní de San Marcos, which is part of my cabinet,” the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, later famous, who was the final to intervene and outlined this ODD presentation as an “authentic milestone for dance, that’s how important it is.”

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