Biblioteca do corpo: movimentos iniciantes e horizontes possíveis para inclusão de obras de dança em acervos institucionais

Abstract

This dissertation reflects the process of creating a dance collection at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), from the broad understanding that this is an area of knowledge integrated in the University, we propose the beginning of a memorial for a dance. The performances of the Dance Studies Group of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (GDUFRN) as artistic and cultural heritage deserve their components and dissemination, resulting from research, laboratories and presentations of the body, carried out during its thirty years of university extension. The most recent part of the Group's work – “(Des)Caminhos” – as a potential show to be published and made available on UFRN's Acervus system. It reflects on the philosophy and memory of dance, and its understandings to highlight what is possible to keep from ephemeral art, considering the historical concern of preserving artistic performances of the performing arts in contrast to what is possible to archive from dance. It has Merleau- Ponty's phenomenological-existentialist methodological thread, for understanding the body as a carrier of knowledge and dance as a phenomenon intertwined with the experience of the subject in his time, in which we are also objects. As a result, the access points and specific characteristics for which dance occupies the collections are highlighted, concluding that there is a possible path to the beginning of the memorial of dance at UFRN, through a live and interconnected archive, linked to the University.