Dor que Dança: Uma história de lesões e autodescoberta artística.

Abstract

This Final Course Work is a reflective memorial of my solo piece Dor que Dança (Dor que Dança). It aims to report and critically reflect on my dance journey. It focuses on the injuries I acquired from these practices, and how my body has been behaving after these events that made me change my dance. My injuries led me to follow other types of movements, which made me reflect on not only physical pain, but also the pain that knowledge of my body has brought. As a basis for this writing and research, I used the creative process of the solo “Dor que Dança” (Dor que Dança), performed by me in the Supervised Internship of Body/Acting Studio and in the Body Practices discipline, taught by Carolina Minozzi and Alexandre Molina. Through this choreography, I talk about the issues I experienced in relation to my body, and how it fits or does not fit into this dance industry that I experienced, leading me to also talk about my self-knowledge and reconnection with my family roots.