Palavras-chave
Contato Improvisação; Corpo Vibrátil; Corpohomólogo.
Autores
Abstract
This article investigates Contact Improvisation (CI), a dance form created by Steve Paxton in 1972, understanding it as a procedural, relational, and investigative practice. Unlike compositional processes in traditional dances, CI prioritizes real-time experience and emergent gesture in the encounter between bodies. Based on the concepts of vibratile body (Rolnik, 1989-2000) and homologous body (Feitoza, 2011), it discusses how this practice produces a body in becoming, sensitive to micro-affectations and co-presence. Gesture, more than a functional action, is understood as a virtual event that transcends the materiality of movement (Gil, 2004). Thus, a gestural homology is proposed in which CI operates as an intensive field of vibrations and co-conductions, where action and gesture co-emerge in cooperation. The CI thus reveals itself as a laboratory of movement and collective thought that dissolves fixed identities and establishes a body-as-environment, a body-in-between, in permanent creation.
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