Improvise and composing dance at school: Paths under construction
School; Dance teaching; Choreographic composition; Improvisation
This master's research deals with a reflection on improvisation and composition as dance contents and possible strategies for it's teaching in dance classes on basic education. We aim to discuss concepts of dance improvisation and composition and probable relationships between these concepts and ways of thinking about it in contemporary dance. We also aim to investigate teaching strategies on these contents in dance classes based on interviewees’ dialogues and specialised literature. The work is characterised by a methodological approach of a qualitative and theoretical nature and has as interlocutors trained teachers in the fields of Dance, Performing Arts and related areas that work on public services as dance teacher in Rio Grande do Norte cities ,Natal municipalities and authors that cope with this field such as Ostrower (2013, 2014), Muniz (2015), Alvarenga (2015), Almeida (2015), Salles (2013, 2015), Lobo e Navas , Louppe (2012), Rocha (2016) and others.As Dance an area of knowledge, our study traces the paths faced by teachers to perform the work with composition and improvisation with their students in formal education and some ways of developing these contents from the pedagogical practice of these teachers. It was possible to understand that improvisation in dance and choreographic composition are contents that contribute to motor and artistic development, besides forming more autonomous, creative, critical, flexible, tolerant and more confident students from an aesthetic reference of the dance used as an indicative in the teachers' strategies