Descobertas de um corpo brincante

Abstract

The present academic work was designed based on my personal stories and my desire to experience dance creation procedures that consider an integrative perspective of the body. The main purpose was to create a dance performance that was directed to children and that valued, above all, the particularities arising from their fertile imagination. Imagination which, in my formative experience, has been hindered and restricted in the most diverse disciplines. In this sense, for the elaboration of this performance it was necessary to rethink the formative processes in dance, read: formation and creation, as well as the ways of relationship between children, adults, formative spaces, and aesthetic poetic perspectives, both in the institutional and in the socio-cultural scope. In order to achieve this, I used some tools of the Dancer-Researcher-Interpreter method, based on the work done by Professor Flávio Campos at UFSM, and games explorations played with my son. From these explorations came the story that leads the performance, as well as the objects that would be used on the scene. The scenic work, entitled “The girl, the bird and the monster”, was presented to children in the Camobi neighborhood, in the city of Santa Maria, on the sidewalks of their homes by previous arrangement. With this undergraduate thesis I seek to reflect and reinforce the importance of play in the integrative education of children. Just like, I seek to present in a critical way how the aesthetic standardization in dance performances for children has erased the children's particularities and does not make room for their creative and “inventiveness” needs. Finally, the work synthesizes and integrates my training process in dance in a free and genuine way just as I believe that childhood should be.