Studies for a fragmented movement: dance, market and possible tensions

• Grant number: 22/06066-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2023
• End date: February 28, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Dance
• Principal Investigator: Maria Helena Franco de Araujo Bastos
• Grantee: Rebeca Tadiello Pinho
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project intend, through the analytics basis developed in the previous research (Scientific Iniciation), to continue the artistic and academic thought expanding it to contemporary aspects which involves corporal movement, contemporary dance creation and neoliberal market. The research emerges as a way of qualify a type of corporal movement distinguished as "fragmented moving", brought up as a critical and poetical way of discussing forms/logics of producing dance nowadays - and in this point, conceiving dance and corporal movement as forms of knowledge.The first step is to surround the idea of 'bodymoving' seen as a relational process that involves body, world/context and possible ways of thinking 'communication' in the performative arts and it's ways of conceiving corporal movement (in this point, dialogues with Peirce's concepts about Abduction, Immediate Object and Argument are explored). So, a critic debate is intended to be arised about how the contemporary artist, who passes through collaborative process in dance creation (considering independent groups) is politically, communicationally and cognitively impacted nowadays considering the so long called 'the fast job's logic' - explored from the neoliberal market seen in its performative dimension. As bibliographic basis there are: Charles Sanders Peirce's Semiotics; the idea that concerns 'moveres'('moves') from Helena Bastos in her book "Wishless Body"; the discussion about the "Business Men" (brought by Pierre Dardot e Christian Laval) and the idea about "Cultural Entrepreneur" according to Pascal Giellen.