Corpografias da Cidade através da Dança: o uso da rua pelo ...AVOA! Núcleo Artístico.

Abstract

The paper seeks to find relations between city and dance, through the project "Entre-espaços" of ...Avoa! Núcleo Artístico. The research focuses on the study of urban interventions, specifically dance, understanding that this is able to create opportunities for different city understandings and a device to desterritorialization-reterritorialization-territorialization the population, potentiating un to atent for the city space. The main objective is understanding the relation between city and dance, from the experience of ...Avoa! Núcleo Artístico. We used the cartography with method, which essentially is not validating or invalidating a situation, but the possibility of fostering new readings of urban space and, consequently, of culture and society. The methodological tools use dare: bibliographic review, interviews, urban bodygraphy and analysis of group‟s photos and videos. The paper focuses on the …AVOA!‟s study space, São Bento Street in São Paulo downtown. The theoretical review involves concepts of ritornelo, territory, urban bodygraphy, body-space, urban interventions, contemporary dance, city, space and contemporaneity, trying to relate movements of modern and postmodern society to understand the processes of subjectivity contemporaries. The research concludes that the city can be understanded also through the persons that lives her, because the principal …AVOA! creative motifs was the people ritm and movement and the sounds produced by them. The street art can be understanded as a resistance way in the capitalist contemporary city, wich is able to transform it from inside of economic and social system.