Improvisação em dança: a potência do desconhecido

Abstract

Improvisation is often treated in a detached manner, as the act of improvising puts us in confrontation with an unknown situation. Naturally, the body's defense mechanism is to plan future events and be in control, either through evolutionary instincts or through exposure to systems that prioritize predictability. This research proposes another perspective on the act of improvising, focused on the artistic language of dance, highlighting the power of the unknown as an important tool for learning and political-social positioning, in a democratic, autonomous and plural space. Based on bibliographical research on dance improvisation, this work seeks to dialogue with an experience report, the show Mamilos, by Coletiva Corpatômica. This show is brought as a reference for a dramaturgy that, in one of its acts, intentionally takes on the stories and memories that each improviser expresses through the body in a moment of creation in real time. In this game between improviser, memory and the unknown, the research outlines reflections on social construction in structures that do not see the unknown as a fertile field for new possibilities.