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Dancing to the Xavante Source: a return experience of the dancer-researcher-performer to the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Territory

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Author(s):
Elisa Massariolli da Costa
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
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Examining board members:
Graziela Rodrigues; Regina Polo Muller; Lúcia Fernandes Lobato
Advisor: Graziela Rodrigues
Abstract

The aim of this research has been to plunge into the stage of the Bailarino-Pesquisador- Intérprete Method (BPI, that means, in english, Dance-Research-Performer) which we have named Return to the Field. This very stage consists of taking the performance, which is the result of the process that occurred inside the BPI Method, back to the field where the Cohabiting with the Source for the scenic creation took place. This is a Method in which the performer's object of research is their focus on either a given cultural manifestation or on a certain stratum of the brazilian culture. The stage of the Return to the Field, in this very project, was based upon four presentations of the performance "Nascedouro", which took place in three different indigenous villages in the so-called "Terra Indígena de Pimentel Barbosa" belonging to the ethnic group of the Xavante and situated in the north of Mato Grosso State. "Nascedouro" is the result of the research of the undergraduate on the DRP Method and focus on the ethnic group of the Xavante. With the direction of the Professor Graziela Rodrigues and the performance of Elisa Costa. As for the experience of returning "Nascedouro" to its Source, both performer and director have been to the land of the Xavante people. It was part of the objectives to seek through the Return to the Field, openness, communication and exchange enough to generate a situation in which the objects of the research would interact with the spectacle and which happened in fact. After the Return to the Field stage, there were other directed creation labs that aimed at better elaborating the scenic results of this project, which resulted in a performance as well as in new presentations of "Nascedouro". Therefore, we have concluded that the Return to the Field, in the BPI Method generates identification together with the objects of the research, thus promoting the perfomer's development as well as the performance's development. It can also provide the creation of new scenic products. We have also concluded that being in tune and trusting one another are the essencial elements to the director-performer relationship, so that the processes of the BPI Method's successful (AU)

FAPESP's process: 10/02730-8 - Dancing to the Xavante Source: a return experience of the dancer-researcher-performer to the Pimentel Barbosa's Indian Territory.
Grantee:Elisa Massariolli da Costa
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master