Elements of dance as a language: Henrique Rodovalho's no Singular

Author(s)

Henrique Rochelle

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2014-01-28

Examining board members

Cássia Navas Alves de Castro; João Batista Freitas Cardoso; Holly Elizabeth Cavrell

• Advisor: Cássia Navas Alves de Castro

Abstract

Dance can be taken and studied as a language from the expanded understanding of this word, which is a tendency even in linguistic studies, when communication is prioritized as the main characteristic of languages. Studying the particular organization of this language, its forms of presentation and structuring to the transmitting of contents is a way to unravel this system, which is mentioned, though not described nor investigated, in theoretical researches in this field. By offering the possibility of approaching all systems of communication and languages, Semiotics displays ample theoretical references, allowing the study of Dance from the approximation of its characteristics to the science of signs, revealing through their relation the particularities of the signs proposed and understood through dance works. In this study the theoretical research is focused on a practical object, choreographies of Quasar Cia de Dança and the ideas proposed by the Cia¿s director, Henrique Rodovalho, here exemplified by his choreography no Singular (2012). This projection allows to enlist and justify some elements of dance as a language, in their place of development, revealing the particularities of Dance communication, such as the classes of signs involved in this process and the internal organizational microstructures of these signs, elements that are presented both from the theoretical development, and from their identification in the situations where they are present (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/14931-0 - Features of the Dance as Language: Henrique Rodovalho's "no Singular"
• Grantee: Henrique Rochelle Meneghini
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master