A POTÊNCIA DO CANSAÇO: RELATO DA POÉTICA DO CORPO NUMA COMPOSIÇÃO EM DANÇA.

Abstract

This work investigates the influence of fatigue on dance compositions, drawing on the author's personal experience during his undergraduate degree in Dance at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. The study stems from the exhausting routine of commuting between municipalities, coupled with the academic and social demands that impact the body and directly affect artistic creation. Rather than understanding fatigue as a limitation, the research recognizes it as a poetic and critical power. The tired body, often discredited in the context of composition, becomes legitimized as a creative body, a producer of presences, pauses, minimal gestures, and expanded listening. The investigation is based on theoretical frameworks that address the body, improvisation, real-time composition, and resistance to technical standardization, articulating theory and practice in a qualitative and autobiographical approach. Throughout, the author develops individual creative workshops, in which the body, affected by fatigue, proposes new ways of moving and inhabiting the stage. Thus, the work not only describes an artistic process, but also proposes a reflection on dance creation as a possible field for real, vulnerable and present bodies.