Abstract:
The object of tthis dissertation is located in the intersection between Art and Science
and establishes a dialogue between the evolutive history of movement and
contemporary dance. The evolutive history of movement makes possible to understand
that the movement specializes itself when there is a necessity. Thus, it is possible to
propose the existence of a specialized movement called „dance movement‟. The
perception that the constitution of „dance movement‟ echoes traces attached to the
evolutive history of movement produced the hypothesis that beyond a specialized
movement called „dance movement‟, there is also an organized coherence of actions
that can be called „dance logic‟. The Contemporary Dance has its own logic. Thinking
about this organizative logic does not qualify the debates that come from the association
between movement and displacement and between dance and choreography. The
proposition here is that there is no need that „dance movement‟ should be always
present, since that Contemporary Dance is regulated by its logic, and not through the
existence or non-existence of dance steps. By now, it is the first stage of the research
that is been presented. It is dedicated to the study of the construction of the human
motricity and the relation between movement and body. The objective is to present an
other perspective to the debate that enunciates dance and choreography as synonymous.
The proposition of the existence of what is here called “dance movement” and “logic of
dance” was based on a bibliographical revision under an epistemological matrix.
Researchers as Katz, Greiner, Lepecki, Vieira Kirstein, Llinás, Alberts and Churchland
were brought to the research among others. The dissertation is based on the co dependence between body and environment in which the movement plays the role of the
evolutive requirement. These understandings enables to enunciate that movement
embodies itself and that dance movement is articulated with neuronals maps similar to
those maps that establish the thought in this body. In this perspective, it becomes
possible to investigate the existence of a dance movement way of thinking.
