Corpo de Que - M? A dança em suas relações multiespécies

Abstract

Anthropocentrism and speciesism are social relations that hierarchize bodies, based on the colonial definition of what would be human in detriment of what would not, prescribing how one lives and how one dies according to the approximations of the body to the enlightenment project of human, thus acting as a social status. The anthropocentric narrative turns bodies into resources and promotes mass extinctions. These are environmental catastrophes and political disappearances (FAUSTO, 2020) that are fostered by the civilizational project and Christian theocentrism. This research aims to relate dance and speciesism. For this, I resort to an anti-methodology to the way of doing science that is based on human exceptionalism (DERRIDA; 2002) and on analyses based on all-ornothing (INGOLD, 1994) through: question-fabrications DESPRET, 2021) that seek to promote fissures in anthropocentric certainties; compositions with imagetic fragments to tense the supremacy of the written word (COLETO, 2022); tensioning of binary language (HABIB, 2022); analyses of explicit speciesism in artistic works and interactions with ontologies and epistemologies that are subversive to anthropocentrism such as Amerindian perspectivism (DANOWSKI; VIVEIROS DE CASTRO, 2017), animism (INGOLD, 2021; KRENAK, 2020), and Multispecies Studies (HARAWAY,2019; VAN DOOREN; KIRSKEY; MÜNSTER, 2016; GILBERT; SAPP; TAUBER, 2016) to add other perspectives to definitions that are important to the field of dance such as “human”, “nonhuman”, “individual”, “environment”, and “society”. Corpo de que-m inhabits the ruins unraveling into contributions for creative processes in dance; into clues for perceiving speciesist manifestations in the body arts; in ways to subvert speciesism in artistic practices; in the creation of a dance almost-solo and in the political understanding that dance is a multi-species relation.