Forms of contagion: a study on the contamination between Corporeal Mimese and contemporay dance

Author(s)

Isis Andreatta Barros

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2015-01-26

Examining board members

Ana Cristina Colla; Renato Ferracini; Jussara Corrêa Miller

• Advisor: Ana Cristina Colla

Abstract

The starting point of this work is the exploration of the crossings between Body Mimesis, methodology developed by Lume Teatro de Campinas, and creation in Contemporary Dance: What is there of mimesis in dance? What is there of dance in mimesis? We also question if the contact with mimesis procedures could promote theoretical and practical triggers for creating in dance. In addition, what is the relevance of this survey to contemporary dance? What about my dance? The interest was to immerse in an investigative process, which practice was an individual, personal and lonely trial, culminating in the development of scenic experiment entitled "self-portrait in motion". Assuming body practice as the main triggering of reflective processes, this text contains the exercise of recreating individual laboratories in the form of writing, mapping the main resonances raised by the creative process. In this sense, it was necessary to draw a map of the life paths that feed this research, recognizing the work of Grupo Vão, contemporary dance collective to which I belong, as the main nesting area of artistic practice. Finally, this work takes as its main assumption the search for a body that dances the experience of "being others" as from the contact with its own instincts. In other words, "looking at others" includes necessarily "looking at oneself". In addition, considering danced movement as fruit of contagion between the artist and the world, one of the concerns was to identify the autobiographical aspect of contemporary dance and then recognize the dancing body under the notion of a non-fixed identity (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/16323-0 - FORMS OF CONTAGION: a study on the contamination between Corporeal Mimesis and contemporay dance
• Grantee: Isis Andreatta Barros
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master