This paper discusses a dance action-research project developed with elderly people in Brazil. The meanings of ballroom dancing and its benefits are explored for 60 elderly Brazilians through participant observation and questionnaires. This study adds to the growing number of dance projects and research for older people, responding in part to evidence that dance is a form of therapy for its valuable means in augmenting mental, emotional and physical well-being and to counteract social isolation. The dance project took place through the Third Age Club, which was founded by The Viçosa County's Social Assistance Department and the Federal University of Viçosa. At the end of one year taking the ballroom dance classes, the senior citizens were asked to answer a questionnaire in order to provide subjective information on the meanings of ballroom dancing and its benefits for them. The outcome of this inquiry was analyzed under a qualitative approach, phenomenological hermeneutics. Five major categories of therapeutic meanings of ballroom dancing for participants are: ballroom dancing is fun; it brings health benefits; it brings back good dancing memories; it allows participants to establish cultural connections to the larger Brazilian dancing culture; it provides
The objective is to reflect on how the work Bárbara creates artistic poetics from the dialogue between urban space and screendance, problematizing deeply rooted beliefs from contemporary art and tensioning others, different ones, from digital culture. Principles of practice are adopted as research to discuss the interfaces between dance, audiovisual technology and modern architecture in Cataguases, Minas Gerais. Recording and editing strategies are highlighted in the creative process of the videodance Bárbara, and the state of trance, of estrangement that happened both to the character, when she dared to dance in a sacred space of the city, and to the researcher who dared to venture, in a wandering way, through the hybrid paths of contemporary art that dialogue dance and audiovisual.
Impressões e questões relativas à teleperformance Esqueceram de Mim s/n, realizada no evento virtual X Mostra de Performance - Negríndios: Corpo, Imagem, Violência e (Re)Presentação (30/11 a 02/12/2020), criada pelo Coletivo A-FETO de Dança-Teatro da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), que integra várias artistas/pesquisadoras egressas da UFBA, em diversas localidades do país. A escrita poética e performativa lida com aspectos de deficiência, invisibilidade e exclusão, em busca da validação de sensibilidades somáticas e memórias ancestrais, enfatizando a diferença e as singularidades como modos de criar sabedorias inovadoras e fundamentais na contemporaneidade.
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