O Método Feldenkrais no cotidiano de dançarinos profissionais: uma prática de si

Abstract

This work addresses the introduction of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education in the daily life of a professional dance company. In order to observe to what extent the somatic practice would interfere in the daily lives of these dancers, a Field Research was carried out with a dance company, through lessons of the Feldenkrais Method, accompanied by dance practices and a focus group. From the experience of investigating themselves through movement, the participants were faced with tendencies, habits, restrictions that, even causing discomfort, proved to be powerful for the expansion of modes of perception. The key issues addressed in the focus groups were: i) habits; ii) self-image; iii) dance teaching-learning processes; iv) autonomy; v) reference models established in the practice of the dancer. The results found in this research led us to consider that the Feldenkrais Method interfered not only in the modes of relationship constituted in dance practices, but mainly in the formative discourses aligned with these practices.