danças de par por imagem e imaginação: considerações sobre dança e sexualidade e sexo

Abstract

This research investigates the interplay between dance, sexuality, and sex in partner dances through image and imagination. The concerns which motivated this research arose from the author’s experience as a ballroom dance teacher and practitioner. This dissertation was based on exploratory research, from references in movies and choreographic works depicting the common ground between dance, sexuality and sex, in order to increase the knowledge on the subject. During the material survey, it became necessary to highlight image-partner-dances and imagination-partner-dances, which consider, respectively, the formation of a pair on stage, and further pair possibilities arising from the spectator’s imagination, based on the comprehension that dance communicates, expresses and stimulates the realm of imagination (HANNA, 1999). Research analysis has made possible the identification of male-sexist and heteronormative patterns (MISKOLCI, 2012), which exclude the diversity in relationships and ways of life. Sexuality as a control device over individuals is discussed through Foulcault (1988) and Preciado (2014). As a counterpoint, through Nunes Filho (2012) and Lorde (2009), body and eroticism are seen as potential means of confrontation against prevailing thought patterns.