Das danças que dancei aos encontros na escola

Abstract

The aim of this work is to construct an autobiographical journey based on my experiences with dance throughout my life. It brings brief reflections on my training processes and points to possibilities for rethinking my teaching practice in the present day. Based on my experiences as an artist-teacher-researcher and experiments with students from a public school in Goiânia that caters for the EJA (Youth and Adult Education) modality, I try to identify postures and actions that help me to develop the idea of kindness processes in dance and how this runs through the actions carried out. I meet autobiographical research by dialoguing with Josso's studies (2010, 2012), which cause displacements and point out discomforts about acting as a dance teacher in public schools. I reflect on the creation of an autobiographical artistic memorial that triggered two experiences at the school, the writing of autobiographies and the coauthoring of an artistic performance by the students. It was possible to define, together with the ideas of Freire (2005, 2019), bell hooks (2017) and approximations with Artistic Practice as Research, traits and contours that echo in the actions developed, with the cultivation of horizontal relationships, empathy, openness to propositions, deviations and possibilities that echoed from the collective, elements that frame the processes of kindness in dance exercised here.