Práticas coletivas na cidade: entre a performance e o contato improvisação

Abstract

This research is based on experiences with collective practices of Performance and Contact Improvisation as mobilizers of thought and triggers of body poetics. This dissertation is driven by a question: how to create a body that sustains the intensities of the present? It is in the enchantment with a way of being together, creating a bridge between the two practices, that a desire to carry out research in the encounter of bodies with the city grows. What emerges from collective performance practices in urban space? What can Contact Improvisation do in ancient times? What policies of the meeting arise when interweaving Performance and Contact Improvisation in the city space? Based on Ciane Fernandes's Somatic-Performative Research Methodology in dialogue with Conceição Evaristo's concept of “escrivivência”, a writing of experience was woven throughout the chapters interspersed with artists and thinkers from Performance and Contact studies Improvisation as Eleonora Fabião, Tania Alice Feix, Tica Lemos and Steve Paxton. From these collective bodily practices, some subjects unfolded to form a poetics of the passage that transits through themes such as chance, the power of the encounter and the construction of being a woman from the reflections of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and bell hooks. Against the grain of a performance society (HAN, 2017), we intended to create spaces for body experimentation that subvert the logic of tiredness, through the desire to transform everyday automatisms into sensitive experiences. The encounter between Performance and Contact Improvisation proved to be an aesthetic path with an important political force for these practices, both on screens and in urban space. Experiencing writing when experiencing collective movement practices was directly related to the unpredictable throughout the research, in a constant reinvention of oneself along with the other and the space.