A way of unique images: steps of a self that are transformed in dance

Author(s)

Natália Augusto Silva

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2010-08-25

Examining board members

Julia Ziviani Vitiello; Antonieta Marilia de Oswald de Andrade; Milton José de Almeida

• Advisor: Julia Ziviani Vitiello

Abstract

The present research has the relation between dance and memory in creative processes as principal issue. The intention is to understand how body memory can contribute to the mechanism of dance creation and interpretation. These studies resulted on a choreographic creation that, on its turn, presented itself as the structural axis of the dissertation. Considering the premise that facts, images, situations, feelings and thoughts once experienced stay laid up in the body and are manifested mainly through the nervous and muscular systems, we investigate how memory interferes on the mechanism of creating and acting on dance. It means that the recognition of those signs left on the body becomes a way to singularities and differences on dance interpretation and creation. The threads chosen to conduct creation are memories related to two Brazilian popular parties: Festa Junina and Festa da Pamonha, which used to happen in my grandmother's ranch on the countryside of São Paulo. My intent is to transform those memories into movements of my body, reviving images and sensations that I compose weaving a dance with those threads. The process of creation and the choreographic study obtained are the dissertation itself, based on a theorical study. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 08/03279-8 - Rescuing sensations and images: the memory in the creative process in dance
• Grantee: Natalia Augusto Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master