Improvising and composing dance at school: chapters of stories in progress
Improvisation; Choreographic composition; Dance teaching, school
This master's research deals with a reflection on improvisation and composition as dance contents and their narratives in school on teachers’ opinions who teach dance classes in basic education. We aim to discuss the concepts of improvisation and composition in dance and the possible relationships between these concepts and how to think them in contemporary dance. We also aim to investigate the strategies of teaching these contents in dance classes based on the dialogue with the interviewees and specialized literature. We have graduated teachers as interlocutors with different specialties such as Dance, Performing Arts and related areas that were approved to be teachers on dance area on public schools in the municipality of Natal and other cities of Rio Grande do Norte and authors who dialogue with this theme such Ostrower (2013, 2014), Muniz (2015), Alvarenga (2015), Almeida (2015), Salles (2013, 2015), Lobo e Navas (2007), Louppe (2012), Rocha (2016) and among others. We use as microhistory methodology according to Levi (1992) that gives us scope to develop narrower scale research of a observation, giving teachers a voice from the narrative perspective. Knowing Dance as an area of knowledge, our study develops a way from teachers’s path faced by them to perform the work with composition and improvisation with their students in formal education.