Nem belo, nem feio: GROTOX. pelo direito de dançar a diferença.

Abstract

The present research was developed in the extent of the Master in Dance of the Dance Post Graduation Program of the Federal University of Bahia and its mainspring is thinking the body/dancer with disability and his access to art. We studied the presence of the disabled person in the artistic scene of the dance considering as bottom line the observation of the GROTOX choreographic work. Authored by the Prof. Ms. José Henrique Amoedo Barral, the choreography was performed by the group Dancing with the Difference, from Madeira Island/Portugal, in association with the House of Music, from the City of Porto/Portugal, during the “Everyone Can Reach” Festival, in 2009. As methodological proposal, we decided to analyze the work critically, considering as a reference the precepts of the Genetic Criticism, as well as the studies in Creation Processes, defended by Cecília de Almeida Salles. Our analysis observes the way the body/dancer with disability is shown in this scenic formulation, specifically: which are the possibilities of the performed dance, if the aesthetic of the “poor little body” or a work of movement investigation, if the proposition of an aesthetic constructed by this body with disability. The GROTOX has “the beautiful and the ugly” as a topic, and the choreographer, in his artistic research, resorted to the books of Umberto Eco: The story of the beauty (2010) and The story of the ugliness (2007). Based on this reference, we tried to understand the relationships established during the process of work creation, as well as the relationships established in scene among the singularities of the dancing bodies. In this pursuit, and to compose the theoretical of our research, we brought: the Corpomídia Theory (GREINER/KATZ, 2004), the Concept of Mass (HARDT/NEGRI, 2005), e the concept of Beleaguered Body (CORREIA, 2007).