Dançaeira: a Capoeira como procedimento para a construção de um processo criativo em Dança Contemporânea

Abstract

This research aims at the survey of common aspects between Capoeira and Contemporary Dance. From the perspective of creative processes in Dance e those that occur in Capoeira, the analysis encompasses some specific objectives. They are: the scrutiny of the body during the improvisation through Capoeira; the perception of capoeirista´s body in relation to other bodies and outside space, during performing; the identification of impulses that may come from Capoeira, by considering its application of them in Contemporary Dance as well. The methodological procedures are based on autobiographic corporeal discourses, which in their turn, starts from empirical hypotheses borned of my own body as capoeirista and dancer. The theoretical perspectives sustain selected concepts such as those of Eugenio Barba, Jerzy Grotowski, Marcel Mauss and Merleau Ponty, in this order. Also, the accomplishment of this research allows connections between Capoeira and creative processes in Contemporary Dance, in a sort of artistic mode baptized as Dançaeira. Finally, such connections struggle for figuring out an expressive and personal artistic body made out of both artistic languages interwoven.