(CON)T@TO: a arte da dança no mundo contemporâneo

Abstract

The proposal from this survey is the construction of a Work of Completion of Course of Bachelor of Dance of the Federal University of Santa Maria, partial requirement for the formation. This research deals with a creative process that seeks to elaborate a thinking-making in the performative arts with a focus on dance. This integrated thinking-making, in turn, is anchored in the discussions about contemporary ways of being, thinking and acting affected by new technologies. Thus, under the regency of research in-on the body that dances and its relations of affection in the world, art has gained other spatialities, dynamics, ways of relating to oneself and the public. The body ceased to be merely the medium of artistic communication and became an agent. In addition, the body affects and is affected in its materiality by the technologies widely available. Postmodernity imposed changes in modes of human conviviality reverberate in pluralized, multifaceted, and accelerated states. In view of the diversified and accelerated life of the 21st century, I believe that the search for ready results and short ways to reach an expected place may not be the way to go. Therefore, this project aims to investigate the marks of the contemporary world in art, especially in this creative process in dance. In this context, reflexive-investigative concerns rest on the procedures, the conception of the work, as well as its last moment (s) of materialization of the creative experience as a whole.