An collection for dance: systematization, registration and availability of artistic works by the UFRN Dance Group
Dance Group of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Dance shows. Dance records. Dance collection. Dance and memory.
This dissertation aims to found a specific dance collection at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), from the indication of a textual pattern of descriptive representation focused on dance performances. It presents the choreographic works of the Dance Group of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (GDUFRN) as artistic dance works resulting from body research, laboratories and studies of the body, carried out by its components as artistic and cultural heritage worthy of preservation and dissemination, to over thirty years of existence, via a university extension project. Part of GDUFRN's most recent work – “(Des)Caminhos” – as a potential spectacle to be cataloged and made available in the UFRN Acervus system. It analyzes the philosophy and memory of Dance, highlighting their understandings and differences to show what is possible to keep from the ephemeral art of dance. Through the reports of dancers-performers-creators and other materials, it uses MerleauPonty's phenomenological-existentialist methodology as a guideline, as it understands dance as a phenomenon intertwined with the subject's experience in his time when we are also objects. As a result, the access points and specific characteristics for the cataloging of dance are selected, concluding that it is possible to start the memory of dance at UFRN, through a dance collection linked to the University.