Resumo:
This research proposes to investigate women who record their issues in the relationship
between dancer and camera in female self-portraits. Starting from the question, how does the
creation of images of women who self-portray their individualities in the relationship between
dancer and camera happen? I justify that the research is necessary due to the importance of
questioning the female presence in more academic records and highlighting women in the
artistic scene. The desire for this work arises from my interest in combining my two areas of
training, Cinema and Dance, with historiographical, feminist, and autobiographical studies,
guided by artistic practice (Fernandes, 2014) and (Scialom; Fernandes, 2022) with works in
photo performances and video dances. The chapter that begins the text presents the first
dancing images with cave paintings. (Marques, 2013). I then reveal that dance movements are
constructed from a connection between the body and memory (Vianna, 2021). I show the
pioneering women artists, such as Catharina Van Hemessen (1548), the first woman to do a
self-portrait, already facing the macho milieu of the arts, along with Sofonisba Anguissola
(1555) and Anna Waser (1691); Frida Kahlo, who imprinted her memories on her
self-portraits; Tarsila do Amaral with her famous Abaporu (1928). To discuss the erasure and
exploitation of women's bodies in the arts, I highlight Analívia Cordeiro with her video art,
M3X3 (1973), the first Brazilian woman to combine dance and digital art using a computer;
women in cinema, dance and photography such as Alice Guy-Blaché, Adélia Sampaio, Maya
Deren, Celina Portella, Danny Bittencourt and Francesca Woodman; as well as research artists
Daniela Guimarães, Dorotea Bastos, Ludmila Pimentel, Mirella Misi, Adriana Bittencourt
Machado and Ciane Fernandes. Concepts such as BodyImage (Pimentel; Bittencourt, 2019)
and (Bastos; Pimentel, 2021); Photochoreography (Mundim, 2021); Self-Photography
(Savioli, 2022), among others, will be discussed. Finally, I reveal how I finalize my images
using choreographic editing with overlapping effects and movement trails, and how the
relationship between dancer and camera takes place to create the images of the female
self-portrait.
