Danças urbanas na escola: um caminho para a construção da consciência corporal

Abstract

This work aimed to investigate how the Urban Dances contribute to the development of the corporal consciousness of the students of the Dance Selection of a certain school of Manaus of particular network. In the case of research related to the influence of Urban Dances for an improvement in the acquisition of corporeal awareness, many theorists and researchers gave their invaluable contributions to the discernment of this study. Among them, we highlight Laban and Fonseca, with the study of movement and psychomotricity referring to the body, Marques with collaborations about dance at school, Nanni approaching the operational stages in dance aimed at the work of dance education, Lauxen and Isse with the history of urban dances and the characterization of their styles, on which are accumulated fragments of works whose investigated slopes are described here. Three phases composed by pre-test were used, using Vitor da Fonseca's Psicomotor Battery (BPM) adapted for dance practice, laboratories with different styles of urban dances and finally the post-test for comparative analysis of the results obtained. The methodological procedures of the work were given as research-action, exploratorydescriptive, with a qualitativequantitative approach. It was sought to identify from the results of phase I, the initial level of body awareness. The investigative laboratories were given by a set of techniques of Urban Dances, being chosen the styles Popping, Locking, House Dance and Hip Hop Dance. The post-test was the application of BPM with a greater degree of difficulty, in order to observe if there was in fact an increase in the development of the corporal consciousness, through the practices of Urban Dances, noting that there were cooperations in the motor development, related to aspects of the factors tonicity, equilibration, fine praxis and notion of the body, where they obtained greater changes compared to the initial phase.