O artista-docente: a lentidão como escolha processual em dança

Abstract

The present research aims firstly at investigating slowness as a means of understanding the body as creative power for dance. It comprises slowness as qualitative power, providing reflections on the dancing body. The process of body acceleration of contemporaneity has opened powerful investigating fields in this research, such as the reflection about the deceleration process of the dancing body, culminating in a reflection on pauses in dance, the investigation of how the process of understanding the qualitative aspect of the danced movement occurs within the flavor of slowness, in its artistic-creative and pedagogical practice, the proposition of dance as a power, providing its understanding as a knowledge field and of increased awareness by means of lived experiences. Memories from childhood, from the beginning of the artistic career, from the practical use of the research carried out at the Theater Alberto Maranhão Dance School, from the scenic design Amiúde (2015) and from the practice as an artist and teacher, all these have made reflection possible on dance potential, proposing slowness as dance language gradually and deeply built, causing wider self and world awareness. Slowness in this research is the objective of the main investigation and the methodology of a dance language. The study of Eukinétic of Laban, "Dance by the senses: choreographic composition" and "improvisation by the senses" of Leal (2012) let us realize that the studies on the expressive qualities of the danced movement and the study of methodological proposals in contemporary dance, based on the senses, have culminated in the understanding of movement, pause and dance as qualitative power which amplifies body consciousness, understanding it entirely.