De volta ao jazz: um experimento de jogo para a improvisação em dança

Abstract

In this Course Conclusion Paper, I present aspects of the processes and results of the research De Volta Ao Jazz: um experimento de jogo para a improvisação em dança (Back to Jazz: a game experiment for dance improvisation), developed in the Master's program of the Professional Postgraduate Program in Dance at the Federal University of Bahia - PRODAN - UFBA. In this research, triggered by my formative and professional itinerary in the Jazz Dance environment, I searched for improvisational and choreographic strategies that would collaborate with emancipatory and creative perspectives for the teaching and learning of dance. The experimentation took place with young people and adults, from the intermediate and advanced jazz classes of the free courses at the Studio A de dança and Ballet Polyana Nascimento schools, both in Salvador, BA, and the Eliane Brasil Dance Studio, in Lauro de Freitas, BA. The notion of research involved (Rocha, L.; Aquino, R.; Rangel, B., 2021) was transversal to the process, developed from the perspective of Bricolage (Kincheloe, 2005), conducting practice as research (Fernandes, 2013 and Lakka, 2022) and action research (Thiollent, 1997). The complexity and memories involved in approaching jazz for this experiment comprised the spiral perspective proposed by Leda a Maria Martins (2021) and the educational practice of jazz and its artistic configurations in Brazil, as processes of transcreation (Campos, 2011), understanding jazz as emerging in the context of American social dance, which survives and thrives on the basis of the human being's ability to reinvent it (Hazzard-gordon, 1990), based on its vernacular character (Stearns, 1994). I end this process by giving back to my professional dance context with this Course Conclusion Work - TCC, presenting three technical-technological products, namely: a) a didactic material, in the format of a digital book entitled Back to Jazz b) a card game, entitled Back to Jazz, accompanied by a manual; c) an article published in the Proceedings of the VII Conference of the National Association of Dance Researchers - ANDA.