A Body in Motion investigation: knowing and making a contemporary afro-dance.

• Grant number: 10/03673-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Dance
• Principal Investigator: Marianna Francisca Martins Monteiro
• Grantee: Fernando Marques Camargo Ferraz
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project is intended to design elements that may contribute to the analysis of the processes of composition in Contemporary Dance and study of interpretative practices, influenced by afro-brazilian dances . Analyze how choreographers, working in São Paulo, understand their practices and develop their dramaturgy, wishing to verify their perspectives on the processes of creation. The study show these creators as partners, and pretend to relate the understandings of them about the development of physical training, structuring of the movement in this style and composition of the scene.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FERRAZ, Fernando Marques Camargo. O fazer saber das danças afro: investigando matrizes negras em movimento. 2012. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Artes. São Paulo São Paulo.