Moving floor study.
Keywords: Dance. Body. Ground. Time.
BISPO, Jairson Pereira. Movediço estudo de chão. 2021. Thesis advisor: Gilsamara Moura. 97 f. ill. Dissertation (Master in Dance) – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Dança, Escola de Dança, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2021.
ABSTRACT
This research is the result of studies in dance and of situations created by the dancing body, as well as of the incidents that arise during these processes, that are ignited by the "curious" contact with the ground, treated here as unstable, and understood beyond the its significance as a support surface, that is flat and smooth. To this end, correspondences, letters, and clues are shared here which attempt to create a field of meanings, frictions and relationships with the ground and lead to the exercise of inventing conversations with the ground, making the grounds that constitute the body dance its history, memory, experience and presence. The proposed conversation is part of a creation process between a network of participating artists and dance students, including Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon, Helena Katz, and André Lepecki, among others. This research is a proposal for studies of the body and of the political gravity that provides its steps; of a curiosity about how we tread on the ground; and of questions about the possible relational constructions between people and things and the unfolding of these propositions in the pedagogical practice established in a given dance context. It takes into account the constitution of absences or presences from the ground, of the ground conquered and/or denied, and of the unstable ground. It is a way of thinking about the body in space and as space, as interpersonal and as having power. It is an exercise in asking questions of time itself.