Entre sala de aula e palco: percepções dos estudantes e profissionais de dança sobre corpo

Abstract

Over the years the body has been dialogued and researched from various angles, by various areas of knowledge. By adopting a merleau-pontyano phenomenological bias, this research seeks to understand the narratives about the concept body within and/or outside the University of Dance. Therefore, the guiding questions of this research is to investigate which are the main perceptions of academics and dance professionals about the body theme, associating its relevance to the performance and/or quality of the arts professional, which, as a result, ascertains how it is conceptualized the Body relating to the artistic context/dance; Studying the study subjects of how they identify their process of acquiring knowledge about the Body theme during academic education; research if there is a theoretical-practical search of the research subjects to improve their knowledge in the aforementioned theme; describe the relevance and perceptions of academics and dance professionals about the theme Body. Because of this, it will be discussed in support, the view of what is body in the observations of the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty; the emergence of the term hybrid in dance in Anglo-Saxon research; and the Body's dialogues in the areas of Degree, Baccalaureate and Dance professionals. As a methodological approach, a qualitative and exploratory approach was adopted, guided by Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to study the narratives about the body among academics of the dance course of the State University of Amazonas and dance professionals. Application of a semi-structured interview, for the reception of data, from which to use discourse analysis, in which it was observed that there is a lack of dialogue of the body concept in both primary and higher education, as there are gaps in the curricular matrices. Of the dance course, but there are researchers who seek to know this body that moves and dances, even if not in philosophical bias. Keyword: Body, Phenomenology, Dance, Merleau-Ponty.