Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUIZ THOMAZ SARMENTO CONCEIÇÃO

Essays on epistemology in dance: La Bête as an epistemo-methodological metaphor for research in art/dance.

epistemology; art; dance; performance; decolonization; ecology of knowledge

This thesis consists of three theoretical essays with practical and experiential involvement aimed at reflecting on possible contributions to the field of epistemology in dance. Drawing from the author's experience with Wagner Schwartz's work, La Bête, and the political and cultural events surrounding its exhibition in 2017, philosophical, scientific, and performative reflections on academic and artistic research in dance are presented. The theoretical perspective is anchored in southern epistemologies and contemporary epistemologies related to decolonization and the historical and sociological revision of Western knowledge. The thesis presents metaphors both epistemic and methodological that seem to closely engage with the paradigmatic transition of Western knowledge, with a focus on a more democratic, inclusive, and anticolonial epistemological future, in which historically marginalized and denied territories, subjectivities, knowledge, and epistemes can receive more appropriate treatment in spaces of power/knowledge, such as the Brazilian university.