Sempre-viva: a coreodemocracia na universidade

Abstract

This research discusses the ways in which the dance actions of the choreographer as a public employee contribute to the maintenance and mobilization of democracy within the university. Its delimitation is set within the context of Brazilian Federal public universities, specifically, the institutions where technical choreographers are present. The need for this study arose from the challenges faced by public universities due to the commodification of Education and the author's concerns during her trajectory as a technical choreographer at an institution facing so many crises ⎯ Federal universities in Brazil. Thus, through the intersection of ideas from André Lepecki (2010; 2012; 2016; 2017), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (1989; 2004; 2010; 2020; 2021), Cássio Hissa (2005; 2006; 2011; 2017), Paulo Freire (1977; 2005; 2020), other scholars from the fields of Education and Dance, and the information and data gathered in interviews with technical choreographers, resonance of important issues was observed whose recurrence pointed to a choreopolitical performance by these public employees. Such performance grounded the idea of choreodemocracy materialized through the dimensions of autonomy, legitimacy, equality, and reciprocity.