Living astonishment: a dancing body in its tumultuous crossings
Dance. Haunt. Terrifying Memories. War Dancing.
This research focuses on the investigation of haunt as an ignition for the dancing body. A dance that takes place through a haunted body, impregnated with the violence imposed by the logics of control and destruction that cross time and are updated in the bodies. In this way, the astonishment happens in the dancing body as an experience of always updated memories that reverberate in the flesh. Wars are the wonders and their terrifying memories are what most outline this research, both the traditionally known bloodthirsty wars, as well as the wars of today, which bring violence at their core. The dancing body assumes itself as a vulnerable body with the intention of summoning the astonishments that affect it and, from that, questioning: how does the body fight when dancing the astonishments alive in the flesh? Vulnerability is linked to a choice to be affected in the making of the dance. In this sense, the astonishment that occurs when experiencing a memory, be it terrifying or not, happens when materialized in the dancing flesh, and so the astonishment is alive in the body, it is of the nature of the living, too. To support the discussion, authors are invited to discuss: the Bodies that dance (BITTENCOURT, 2012; SILVA JÚNIOR, 2019; GREINER, 2019; among others), the Haunt (PELBART, 2019), the Experience (BONDÍA, 2021). 2017; BITTENCOURT, 2012), the War (NEGRI & HARDT, 2005; MBEMBE, 2018; PELBART, 2019; KRENAK, 2020, among others) PRECIADO, 2018; FOUCAULT, 2015, among others), the Permanences (BITTENCOURT, 2005), the Images (BITTENCOURT, 2012), the Logics of control and destruction involved in historically vulnerable bodies (VIDARTE, 2019; HAN, 2020; FOUCAULT, 1987; ROLNIK, 2018; PELBART, 2019, among others). The discussions established through a conceptual cartography (PELBART, 2013; KASTRUP, 2007) of the listed subjects are problematized in compositional works in which the author himself is involved (Valentar and Corre Bixa Corre); created in dialogue with the writing of the thesis in order to problematize the questions in the body that weaves it.