For a timeline to be — genealogies of dance as artistic practice in Portugal is a collective exercise of signalling landmarks related to the development and dissemination of dance as an artistic practice in Portugal in the 20th and 21st centuries. Conducted intermittently since 2016 and assuming the present as a place of enunciation, each edition undergoes mutations that lead to a physical and methodological reconfiguration of what is given to see. It combines bibliographic sources with the listening of testimonies, the collection of original documents with iconographic research, the drawing narratives and relationships, seeking to create a multiple place for the understanding of what dance is or can be, and proposing a familiarity with works, authors, “canons”, corporealities, eras and worldviews, questioning them aesthetically and politically.