Atmosfera imanente: poética de luz da companhia moderno de dança

Abstract

This research investigates the creative process of visuality in stage lighting of Companhia Moderno de Dança’s spectacles. While understanding that stage lighting during the creative process of this company absorbs the creating principles of the body that dances and develops its own poetics, I point here the approaches between this group’s methodology, i.e., the immanent dance, and the procedures that permeate the lighting creation in this aforementioned company. Starting from an analysis of its scenographical particularities and the visualities obtained on stage through lighting, the research aims to search for the visual signature of the scenic lighting designer and the way by which he develops his creative processes. The theoretical foundations of visual arts and dance used here are the ones related to Gil Camargo’s and Iara Souza’s studies of light aesthetics, Anna Mantovani’s creativity and creative processes, and Ana Flávia Mendes’s and Luiza Souza’s immanent dance, amongst other theories that verse about visuality and corporeity, such as Johann Goethe, Donis Dondis, João de Jesus Paes Loureiro and José Gil. As for the methodology, this research makes use of Roberto Sidnei Macedo’s ethno research, through the perspective of the participating observation, adopting strategies of bibliographic research, open interviews and documental analysis. Thus, there will be bases for the understanding of this visuality obtained in contemporary dance, proposing then a broadening of the Influential Atmosphere concept by approaching the immanent dance, developing and organizing the Immanent Atmosphere as the visual signature of the stage lighting designer.