Corpografias em dança: da experiência do corpo sensível entre a informação e a gestualidade

Abstract

Bodygraphies in Dancing is a complex and undisciplined investigation. It has been developed in between the fields of Information Sciences and Language Sciences, and it has been deeply rooted to the Dance Field and is essencially fundamented by philosophical grounds, conjugating therefore distinct disciplinary boundaries. Such theoretical weave is developed in order to make visible the presumptions that move our issues, which are: the hypothesis that the body experiments information quite much, and that gestures make this subjacent relation evident. The principle of our argumentation goes somewhat around the philosophical reflection about the body so as to point out the complexity of our main research object and to equally suggest an approach which considers it in constant communion with the world. This way we investigate the onthology of the flesh by Merleau-Ponty to make it the background for the game among the elements we point out to integrate and shape up the desired design. Among such elements, information is the fisrt one to be unfolded, unraveling its sensitive and qualitative aspects which will be named infosigns. In such verticalization, information gets its right side and its inside out, its visible and its invisible sides, and above all, it becomes potency, to be updated before a body which is its trigger. Further on, the gesture comes to be revised with views of a literature that ranges from antropology and philosophy to the somatic perspective and the dance. Due to what is presented, it is taken as pure mediality and has in gesturing its most aparent side. Concerning the dance field approach, we promote brief retrospective which compromises the urge of modern dance at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Having François Delsartes schematic as a starting point, who attempted to show associations between gestures and human emotions, we glide through some artistic reflections such as the systems elaborated by Rudolf Laban, the most outstanding ones, which are important references ground to our analysis demands. From that being done we could consolidate our understanding of improvisation in the dance, as a creative exercise able to provoke the acting of imaginary alterities which may point to the sensorial and emotional character of information. We have therefore dedicated ourselves to the debate over the spacialities which are here focused in the body. In such scope, the notion of bodygraphy has been included under Jacques and Brittos points of view and from this notion, our conceptions of place, space and ambience elaborated for analytical ends - have also been included, as distinct times of the bodily experience in the physical entity. Up to this point, we conclude our research cartography and go towards the analysis of our bodygraphs in dancing, which conform with our empiric objective. With that in mind, a research methodology was developed in which volunteer dancers from various parts of America and Europe made videos of dance improvisation in public spaces according to previous orientation. That way the elaborated work encompasses the information, the body, the gesture and the space as elements of the same flesh which operate in sinergy and demand a complex point of view that can unfold, tighten and conjugate them. Such efforts and contributions of this research design an invisible thread of sense between information and gesturing which untangles as it is built since the body is an ever moving (meaningful) entity.