Rabiscos verticais: experiências de criação e formação no tecido acrobático

Abstract

The growing interest in Circus Arts and the reorientation of the transmission model of this knowledge require an evaluation of the attitude of the practitioners and teachers of the said modality of Performing Arts. The objective of this study is to develop a process together with other artists to understand if it is possible for the artist/researcher to print their story, memory and personality within this risk learning process, and in thereof obtain an authorial piece of work outside the manuals of the Aerial Silk. It is also to reflect on different ways for teachers to give continuity to this technique otherwise transmitted orally through family members. As a general methodological orientation, ethnography from two laboratories was chosen: the first carried out in the first semester of 2016, in which, through experiences of the researcher with her child, using memories of maternity in a space developed with the material used for aerial silks, new movements were elaborated in a process of deconstruction of the researcher’s path, from her graduation at the Circus School through to the process of the creation of this dissertation. The second laboratory took place in the second semester of the same year, also making use of the resource of memory as a proposer of possible moments of transcription to movements and expressiveness, in an optional discipline offered by the Theater course at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Federal University of Uberlândia). These two laboratories culminated in the shared experiences registered in this text. Interviews were also carried out with three teachers of the aforementioned modality from the Escola Nacional de Circo (National School of Circus). Concluding, the present dissertation will present the possibility of applying subjectivity in a sensitive way towards a practical objective that requires discipline and care at all time, which we can call the Art of Risk – the Circus.