Re-descobrindo ser-si-mesmo: a existencialidade de mulheres praticantes de pole dance

Abstract

Physical activity is a trainer for everyday life, promoting sound judgment and situational awareness, enabling reaction in face of environmental changes, and having social relations as a performance mediators. The Pole Dance is a sport that is gaining ground in the media. Therefore, the present study, titled "Re-discovering being-one-self: the existentialism of women pole dance practitioners", is aimed at understanding how pole dance women practitioners mean their existence from the practice of sports. It is a qualitative research, which was developed according to the precepts of the phenomenological method and analysis from the assumptions of the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty. Twelve women pole dance practitioners from a studio in the city of Manaus were considered as participants and the data collection was carried out from a guiding question. Through those speeches the following categories of analysis were created: Starting "to pole", Obstacles versus Overcoming , Pre-Concepts, Re-discovering be one-self and "What does pole dance mean for you?". In such analysis, the most diverse experiences were seized on a common practice, in which of them the being-in- the-world of each of these women was verified and how they see themselves and perceive their bodies in interaction with themselves and with the world. It was understood that behind a simple movement, there are countless beings- in- the-world and that the most certain existing fact is individuality