A dança das matérias: corpo, coisa e improvisação

Abstract

The dance of matters: body, thing and improvisation, is a research that investigates a state of the body when improvising, understood as bodything. I use the term thing to think about dance, through improvisation with materials as a way of composing that allows this state of things. The study of the thing is developed from three main questions: How to despectacularize the body in dance?; How to un-evidence the body in dance?; How to thingness? In the first question, I elaborate reflections on the relationship between dance and writing, presence and meaning, dialoguing with Lepecki's (2012c) proposal of de-spectacularization of the body, based on a reflection on the term choreography; presence is discussed with the researcher Gumbrecht (2010), and the relationship with dance improvisation is discussed with Bardet (2014) and Louppe (2012), understanding improvisation as an experience of language (FOGEL, 2017). In the search for a dis-evidence of the body, I approach the processes of subjectivation of the body from Sander (2009), suggesting an exercise for the vibrating body with Rolnik (2016), and thus thinking about a vulnerable dance. Finally, I discuss the term thing with Ingold (2012), walking through historical events in the ways of doing dance that point out the materials as part of their writings; and I also comment on the nomenclature of object and matter, bringing reports of practical experiences of improvisation in dance with materials.