The process will begin with the creation of the Directorate General of Performing Arts and Music, which will take on the activities of promotion, heritage and sectoral coordination.
The Minister of Culture appears at a press conference with the Director General of INAEMThe Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, appears at a press conference with the Director General of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), Paz Santa Cecilia, at the Ministry’s headquarters.
The Ministry of Culture has begun the comprehensive transformation of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM) aimed at updating, optimising and improving the organisational, management and personnel structure of the autonomous body, which was created four decades ago. The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, together with the Director General of INAEM, Paz Santa Cecilia, presented this reform process, thanking the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service for their involvement, as well as the work carried out by the current INAEM team since its arrival.
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Culture initiates the comprehensive transformation of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM)
The INAEM today fulfils two central functions, hitherto carried out by the same autonomous body. On the one hand, the promotion of music and the performing arts, and on the other hand, artistic creation and exhibition. With this reform, a new Directorate General of Performing Arts and Music will be created, which will assume the function of promoting music and performing arts. In turn, artistic creation and exhibition will be carried out by the autonomous body.
In this sense, to guarantee coherence and organicity in the comprehensive reform of the INAEM, both the Directorate General and the autonomous body will be managed by the same person, in this case, Paz Santa Cecilia.
According to the Minister of Culture at this morning’s press conference, ‘Today we lay the first stone of the comprehensive reform of the INAEM, a project for the legislature. A reform that will allow us to meet the demands of this sector, which is so important for the culture of our country, through a stronger, more agile and efficient structure, with better conditions for the workers.
Santa Cecilia explained that ‘the transformations of the performing arts sector in recent decades have made it necessary to rethink the role of the public administration in the promotion and protection of new realities of the performing arts, with languages and disciplines that today form part of the creative panorama with their weight. The new Directorate General will pay special attention to dance and interdisciplinary creation and will be open to new transversal projects.
New Directorate-General of Performing Arts and Music
The first stage of this reform process, which will culminate during the first half of 2025, contemplates the creation of a new Directorate General for Performing Arts and Music within the Ministry of Culture, which will be responsible for the promotion and dissemination of music, theatre, dance and circus, through the announcement and granting of aid, adapting it to the specific nature of each sector, as well as the defence of heritage and coordination with the sector.
This new body will promote the necessary conditions to guarantee access to and participation in culture in the field of music and performing arts, will encourage dialogue with the sector in the design and execution of cultural policies through the coordination mechanisms that are established, with special mention of the State Council for the Performing Arts and Music, and will foster the external projection of music and the performing arts.
Its functions will also include leading institutional relations, coordinating with bodies and organisations of the Ministry of Culture and participating in the Cultural Rights Plan. It will also be responsible for awarding prizes, managing and coordinating the Platea programme and other exhibition circuits, participating in the boards of trustees of festivals, theatres and other institutions, and organising the Social Inclusion Conferences.
Similarly, this new ministerial area will strengthen the promotion of dance inside and outside Spain, as well as broaden the focus on interdisciplinary creation. In this sense, for the first time, it will focus not only on exhibition and production but also on contemporary creation, which will be included in the lines of aid and in initiatives that promote creative processes and artistic residencies.
Creation of the Office for the Dissemination of Dance
In the same line of support, the Office for the Diffusion of Dance (ODD) will be created, under the Directorate General for Performing Arts and Music, which will respond to a historical demand from the sector. The ODD will boost policies for the promotion and encouragement of dance, to boost access to consolidated markets both at home and abroad, taking into account its potential mobility. The new office will encourage the stable circulation of companies and projects in the different autonomous communities and on international circuits.
Public body for creation and exhibition
In parallel to the creation of the Directorate General, work has begun on the design of the future public body that will be in charge of the field of creation and exhibition. In this phase, dialogue has been opened with the social agents to make consensual progress on issues related to human resources.