High education in dance: trajetory of formation and labor market in the perspective of the artists graduated from the State University of Campinas

Author(s)

Katiuska Scuciato de Riz

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
• Defense date: 2009-07-20

Examining board members

Liliana Rolfsen Petrilli Segnini; Aparecida Neri de Souza; Marcia Maria Strazzacappa Hernandez; Selma Borghi Venco

• Advisor: Liliana Rolfsen Petrilli Segnini

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the relevance of formation in high education in the trajectories of artists, especially in dance. Initially, we have analyzed the growth of high education institutions of dance, contextualizing it, from the 1950's, highlighting 1990's. Later, we have analyzed the labor market in dance in Brazil, according to institutional information - national statistics - and its relation with the process of professional formation. The cited data has better made possible the understanding of the dance course created, in 1985, in the Institute of Arts of University of Campinas. In this research field, the artists, who had concluded the high education of dance in the related institution, had been interviewed. Questionnaires were sent to graduated artists within 20 years, asking, among others information, if they agree to being interviewed personally; privileged instrument of research in this process. Half-structuralized interviews had been developed next to a representative sample. Thus, by means of a singular case - the social and professional trajectory of the artists of the dance graduated from University of Campinas, we have analyzed the relation between professional formation and artistic labor market in a context of increasing professionalization, to point out the singularities of this relation and its contradictions. For example: data of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics informs that 72.4% of the graduated ones in high education in arts do not work in this field, showing the incompatibility of this level of study with arts labor market. However, at the same time, high education vacant in dance grows in public education, from 1990's, as well as the formal work from 2004. The theoretical referential that informs this research articulates the sociology of work and education, and gender relations category as a main reference. (AU)