Poética espaço gesto: corpo em confinamento: processos criativos para danças impossíveis

Abstract

This dissertation presents an investigative path that sought to understand possible modifications in the creative processes in dance during the COVID 19 pandemic. The hypothesis was that the inventive alternatives found by the artists in this period could lead us to suggest the emergence of new creative poetics in contemporary dance that occurred in these two years of confinement. To this end, we examine the state of the confined body in relation to the space of the house, its implications in the modifications of the gesture and, consequently, its unfolding in the writing of an extemporaneous dance-becoming. To investigate the unfolding of these poetics of confinement and their resonances in the field of dance, we chose videodance as the main focus, given the central character that digital media have taken on in this context, questioning ourselves about its specificities in order to elucidate the unique way in which, in the context of the pandemic, dance creations linked to digital media took place. Through literature review, research of lives released in the period, video analysis and semi-structured interviews aimed at women dance artists, we sought to investigate whether these emergencies ended up mobilizing other poetics and ways of doing in dance.