Escritos Vagalumeantes: Mo(vi)mento de Etá em processo de transcriação vagalumeante

Abstract

A fireflying written. The following actions are my experiences-memories-creations from the childhood to present times. Read it as you look at a firefly flying in the darkness nearby the Xingu River, at Altamira, city in the state of Pará, Brazil. From this standpoint arises a trigger to think about the transcreation and interpretations of what can be light, dark, path, enchant, mystery, frustration, mo(ve)ment, imagination and (trans)creation in my artistic practice, in my dance. For this purpose, the current time cross this process because the world is researching for a cure for COVID-19 virus as long as we are all looking cure for mental diseases both individually and collectively. I believe that actions and thoughts about cure can be enabled through artistic perspectives, yet, paradoxically, we are going through a moment of even greater devaluation, socially and individually, of art. I would even say by us artists, who often do not see the artistic relevance in the healing, historically recognized in humanity. As we are blind to seeking survival by means that they put us in a state that is alien to the artistic body and trapped in a biological body, and so we seek to survive and heal ourselves by other means than making-thinking the Art of/for/in the body. Not accepting the changes, differences and collective movements in the face of a disease, sickens us as much as contamination by a virus in the blood. A fireflying written is a mo(ve)ment and an observation. This is the perception of infinite lights and darks amongst the chaos of uncertainty presented in a living process such as mine. All of this with an artistic group called Companhia Moderno de Dança, establishes itself in the embodiment of a collective practice in its making-thinking of a multiple and uniqueness body named Etá, metaphorically created for this research crossed by media and affective possibilities. The results were generated by the memorial composed of six booklets and a poetics called Vagalumear (to firefly), which consisted of four videos.