Notas e reflexões sobre nossos desejos de dança: O que nos move hoje?

Abstract

Evasion and quality of teaching learning has been a concern for higher education in Brazil, given the responsibility with the training of professionals, with the resources applied and with the social and individual expectations about the graduates of each course. Graduation courses in Dance in Federal University of Ceará began in 2011 and, since then, the impression was that many students were"disappearing" of the course every semester. This study aims to verify if students’ dropout was real, which the barriers are faced by those who remained and to experience in the body these sensations. Data collection was done in the records of the Federal University of Ceará, focal group and interviews with students, a questionnaire application through Google Forms and an experimental project proposed to experience the author’s and her colleagues’ feelings through her body’s movements. The success rate of Dance courses is much lower than the overall UFC rate. The student profile of the Dance Courses that answered the questionnaire was female, single, living in Fortaleza, with an one to two siblings, without children, economically dependent of the family, whose head has education equal to or greater than high school graduate, admitted to the regular SISU course, who has family support, and practiced dancing before starting graduation just for fun or dancing in groups, voluntarily. Difficulties with the family support, with the fact that the Course is full time, the students’ financial restriction, insufficiency number of scholarships and uncertainty about financial sustainability of graduated were the most cited. Love for dance, well-being and the freedom it provides make dance a goal and a way of life and keep the students in the courses. It is still precocious a comparison of other courses of the UFC with those of Dance because these are very recent, however, the difficulties of the students need to be considered and, as far as possible, because they would like to have the Dance as their professional activity after graduation. The experimental project took the author to this place of student who faces barriers to stay in the course, dancing those sensations that affectedher and made her think that this could be the last opportunity to dance them.