Encruzilhada: dança e comunicação entre pessoas surdas e ouvintes

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to reflect on accessibility in Dance, based on an artistic investigation that focuses on communication between deaf and hearing people in the context of Dance. Thus, I start from my experience as a black and deaf man born in Salvador/Ba, to problematize racism and ableism. The methodology used to develop this research was Practice as Research (Fernandes, 2015). I started from the investigative practice, finding the paths of the research that were designed from the concept Kiss of Tongues (Toledo, 2017), when referring to the encounter between Libras and Portuguese. In this research, I racialize the discussion proposed by Toledo (2017), and find in the archetype of Exu and at the crossroads the answers to my research. The results of the research indicate the creation of a dance solo, created from artistic residencies between me and 4 hearing dance artists. And a bibliographic production that accompanies this creation.