Memórias na pele: um processo de experimentação em dança com idosos remanescentes da Colônia de Hansenianos de Marituba-PA

Abstract

This research is a study in dance with ederly leprosy patients living in a shelter in the city of Marituba-PA. The investigation has its starting point in the facts recordered in the memory of lived bodily experiences in artistic practices, specifically the carnival in the period in which they resided at the Leprosy Colony. The methodological procedures used here are the etnopesquisa, because the everyday interactions through direct observation and participation, as well as the use of laboratory reserach in movement, as estimulation to recollect and express the artistic experiences lived during the compulsory segregation period. I restrict myself to propose clues for further research in dance, so that the experiments produced in this study may become a scenic product.