CORPODUNCAN: O LEGADO DE ISADORA DUNCAN E SUAS REVERBERAÇÕES EM PROCESSOS ARTÍSTICOS NA BAHIA

Abstract

This study presents the history of the North American dancer Isadora Duncan, a precursor of modern dance. It is a narrative about her origins and the pathways that made possible for her to create a dance style that is connected with the elements of nature, Greek mythology and the Renaissance. The creation of this new way of thinking about dance made it detached from the formal aesthetics of classical ballet and advocated the idea of the solar plexus as the place from which all dance movements come from. Since Isadora’s tour of Brazil in 1916, where she performed in the cities of Rio do Janeiro, São Paulo and in Salvador at Teatro São João, her creative flow has influenced artistic processes and pedagogical actions implemented by the Escola Contemporânea de Dança. These experiences establish possible dialogues with thinkers who also connect with the elements presented in this research, such as Jorge Larossa, Paulo Freire, Helena Katz and Christine Greiner, Ailton Krenak and Susan Foster and contribute to the understanding of dance. The expressive nature of Duncan lines and their connection to mind, spirit and movement manifest the creation of the term CORPODUNCAN. These continuous exchanges of knowledge are opposed to Cartesian dualisms, the binary structures that fragment the body and try to separate it. In this way, CORPODUNCAN intuits the symbiosis of body, culture and environment in dialogue with the “Corpomedia theory” to help understand this concept. It is a testament to how the aforementioned dancer's body caused a change of paradigms, crossed the century and still represents an emblem of emancipatory achievements and aspirations, constituting one of the representative ideals of female freedom, so necessary in these contemporary times.