Dança Possível: Manifestações estéticas do encontro entre dança e pessoas com Parkinson

Abstract

Dance is possible for anyone who is willing to place art intention on their body and movement. This paper proposes to promote the dialogue between dance and health, underlining the integrality and sensitivity of the subjects. The objective is to revisit the archives of the dance workshops held at the Parkinson's Association of Goiás to elect aesthetic manifestations arising from the meeting between dance and people with Parkinson's. The theoretical foundation addresses the expressive character of dance for Laban and the developments in Brazilian research that prioritize inclusion and diversity. It presents the main symptoms of Parkinson's disease and broadens the focus to the potentialities of the person with the disease from the perspective of health promotion. It discusses the studies that approach dance as a therapeutic means for motor and psychosocial aspects and proposes dance as an aesthetic experience, with an end to itself and for itself. The qualitative methodology is composed of documentary research of the audiovisual collection and the reports of dance workshops. Four categories of aesthetic manifestations of the participants are analyzed, consisting of moments of daily dilation, rupture with the utilitarian criterion, reconfiguration of forms of movement and experimentation of the place of creator in dance. It is concluded that from the encounter between dance and people with Parkinson's came other ways of dealing with the body, time and space. This research contributes to health promotion studies with people with Parkinson's and the affirmation of dance in its aesthetic dimension.