Dança no acionamento de conectomas neurais: Maracatu e Maculelê como sistemas de vínculos para a emancipação cognitiva da pessoa

Abstract

The research, which is being conducted in the Master's Degree Program in Academic Dance, takes place in dance activities offered as free courses and classes in curricular components at the Conservatório Dramático Musical de Tatuí in Tatuí/SP, for students in a age range of 18 to 30 years-old (with minimum or no dance experience). Those activities are the core of this research, which codes are the Afro-Brazilian dances Maracatu and Maculelê. This investigation aims to approach the importance of Dance studies, more precisely both of them listed in relation to neural connectomes, guided by the following core questions: Will the dance body have a greater neural connectome than other bodies? Does dancing plays any part in people’s cognitive development? The following paper takes in consideration those propositions and connections between scientists, neurocientists and dancers actions about issues that involve the brain (taken, obviously, as part of the body) and bring contributions and developments to the Dance field. The research work is of a qualitative character and exploratory in nature, having chosen as the methodological procedure an analysis of audiovisual data, interviews and testimonials produced throughout the research and, finally, it will be used an in-depth bibliographic study for argumentation. The main references are: Vianna (2005) and Greiner (2012), who depicts and develop the issues of dance, body studies and body awareness; Hall (2011), who is a reference on human anatomy, the structural, physiological and functional issues of the body; Ramachandran (2014) who elucidates regarding deep proprioception in relation to the lived experiences of the body; Machado (2014) and Bear (2017), who are references in neurophysiology, neuroplasticity, creation, and neuronal development; Damásio (2018) who helps us understand what is the body-mind relationship, the homeostasis and regulation of life, the formation of feeling and emotion; Santos (2010, 2022) who will help us explain the emancipation of bodies and Rengel (2007, 2021) with the notion of corponectivity matters. It is hoped that the results of this analysis will contribute to the field of Dance and be open in devolutive to the academic society and society in general. It is important to realize that dancing operates in the construction of self knowledge and knowledge about the world, while expanding possibilities, focusing on the study of neural connectomes and cognitive development itself in the totality of the person who dances.