O corpo-criança através do corpo-dançante no ambiente escolar: vivências e sentidos, há sentidos!

Abstract

This work assumes the purpose of analyzing contents of written, photographic records and drawings of a creative process in dance carried out in a public school in the city of Manaus in 2018, which are so current and necessary to think about the lived-body in the relationship between the child-body and the dancing-body at school. The study presents the description of the senses and meanings in the ways of dancing, and the reflections about the contexts lived by the children when they dance. In the first movement, the work deals with a polysemic view of elementary education from the perspective of school time and space, pointing out the istances and approximations between schooling and being a child. In the second, we interrelate the interfaces between dance and the child-body in the Amazônia, and its symbolic dimension as an expression of bodies. And then the third movement discusses the meanings of the body in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as the epistemological basis of this work, and from this philosophical point of view, the qualitative research was outlined by procedures of a descriptive-exploratory study. Thus, the dissertation focused on the deep description of what has already happened in the sensitive field of dance, through the rescue of memories, knowledge from experience, body movements, times and spaces and physical, symbolic and affective. The study revealed the challenges of the child-body, mobilized daily by individual and collective processes of school life, in which the senses and meanings express movements that can go from stagnation to exhaustion, the repetition of daily actions, the action or inaction of the body, facing to pedagogical processes. In this interweaving, there is also the expression of the dancing-body that shows its deep relationship of inherence with nature and through this it expresses its states of concentration, presence, contemplation, and creative power, it is a body for which dance is seen as a manifestation of both art and nature, by weaving its own symbolic dimensions created by body culture that transform the reality of the school body.