The Contact Improvisation is a body technique born in the U.S.A. in the 70s. It is based on body's listening where the dancers concentrates on the movement, the physical contact perception and the interaction with others dancers. The main objective of this paper is to research the community of Contact Improvisation in Brasília, and to understand in which ways dancing transforms the practitioner's embodied selves. The methodology used is the ethnography. This method provides a cultural description, evokes a participatory reality through dialogue with the interviewees. Many of the interviews reflect the impact of the Contact Improvisation's activity in the practitioner's life style, which allowed me to do some reflections about the ways of life in liquid-modernity contexts. The reports showed that people usually looked for Contact Improvisation as an attempt to rescue the body contact lost between them in everyday life. I identified at this group a community formed by culturally developed ways of attention to the body as a result of this technique practice. It was concluded by emphasizing how the practice of this dance influences the way students percepts themselves, contributing with specific forms of being in the world.
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