Tocados pela dança, dançando pelo toque: experiências no contexto da Escola de Arte e Cultura PRO-ARTE - Guamaré-RN

Abstract

The reasearch aims discuss about the importance of touching in the context of dance teaching interacting with some body practical that use touch as reference as Steve Paxton Contact Improvisation and Gerdar Alexander Eutony. The methodological approach is based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology and part of lived experience by the researcher and her students from Escola de Arte e Cultura – PRO-ARTE in Guamare-RN Brazil. For the discussion comes closer to authors like: Ashley Montagu, Maturana e Varela, Jorge Larrosa, Karenine Porpino, Petrucia Nóbrega and others. The reflections target to the possibilities of dance teaching from sensations given by touching and consider that skin touch also cross invisible lines evoking individual consciousness to one’s dance. Although the touch sensory origin is realized on someone’s skin, its consequences goes beyond what Is felt by the touch sense and the visible field and promotes awereness of dance creation.