“Balançaê: Dance, a complex systemic organization in the context of elementary education in public schools”
BALANÇAÊ.DANCE. COMPLEXITY. SCHOOLS. SYSTEMIC THINKING.
“Balançaê: Dance, a complex systemic organization in the context of elementary education in public schools” is a part of the doctoral research in progress in the Postgraduate Program in Dance (PPGDANÇA), at UFBA. The research was supervised by PhD Professor Lenira Peral Rengel, in the Dance, Body and Cognition research area of studies. The investigation’s core objective is to analyze the relational modes between the usual dance/school systems, which do not take into account the complexity of the field in question. The present reasearch was developed having as reference the concepts of complexity of Edgar Morin (2002; 2015) and Pedro Demo (2002); systems thinking, by Maria José Esteves (2018); systems, by Jorge Vieira de Albuquerque (2006); and Richard Dawkins' memes (2002). For the production of reflections, I articulated my professional trajectory and dance teaching experience in public schools, in the city of Salvador, in order to investigate strategies that connect the dance system with other inherent school’s systems. The main goal of articulating dance in a systemic way at school was to update the information related to the body, space, movement that can break habits and memes, such as: “who dances doesn't think”; “dance is something for girls”; and “why dance at school?” Dance is an inspiration that comes from outside and invades us... This information continues to circulate, replicating itself in a systemic way beyond the classroom space, “jumping” from bodies to bodies on the street, in the neighborhood, in the family, at school. The built of a swing in a tree at the back of the school made unhabited spaces (rooms), routines unhindered. The body that was dancing on the hardened cold concrete floor between chairs, tables, and cabinets – that were repeatedly moved to expand the space – gained other relevance. The body experienced being in balance in the air, in the swing. Therefore, in between one swing and another, the systems were swayed, stirred, and challenged.