Dancing Simply Together (DAST): Exploring the Connections and Flow between Dance and Complexity
DAST is a research project on relations and the production of differences (DELEUZE, 2018), with dances in contemporary societies, deeply marked by the relations between humans and non-humans that have been intensifying in the production of similarities. Currently, dance creation processes based on organizing principles (LESTE, 2010) promote favourable conditions to explore the multiplicity of bodies within a collective, based on complex processes and on the sense of togetherness (TSENG et al., 2021).
In the field of dance production and teaching, there is an interest in improvisation with trained and untrained populations, in situations related to art, education, health and leisure. Studies of neural processes in dance have pointed to the constitution of a field called neuroaesthetics (ZEKI et al., 2020).
This project proposes to problematize the relations between creative processes and dance teaching with different populations in environments of art, health, leisure and education, from the perspective of dynamic brain functional networks, understood as complex systems that co-produce dancing bodies and societies potentially committed to the production of differences.
Our hypothesis to be tested is related to the creation and production of procedures for dance creation and teaching with improvisation, in actual and virtual situations, with and without the evaluation of brain functional networks, in the production of dances, based on Agent Based Models (CHAUDHRY, 2016), understood as complex systems that point to an ethics of encounter and a politics of co-production, generating dances, aesthetics and poetics that are self-organized, generative dance.
The study is characterized as a mixed-method approach with a transformative strategy and concurrent triangulation (CRESWELL, 2007). Thus, DAST emerges from the need to expand the academic discussion for a better ethical and political understanding of generative dance and to understand the dynamics of functional connectivity in collective dance.
Objectives
GENERAL: To produce dances as ethics, aesthetics, poetics, and politics of ?togetherness? – generative dance, through processes of collective dance compositions established from agent-based models, taking the theories of complexity as a reference, with different populations.
SPECIFIC: To experiment with processes of collective compositions in generative dance based on agent-based models; To develop protocols for carrying out collective compositions in generative dance based on agent-based models; To understand the ethical, aesthetic, poetic and political meanings experienced by participants in the processes of collective compositions in generative dance; To verify the creation of individual brain signatures and synchronizations of brain functional networks, through EEG, among participants in the experimentations with processes of collective compositions in generative dance established from agent-based models.
Institutions
- University of Pernambuco / School of Physical Education – UPE-PE, Brazil
- Federal University of Bahia / School of Dance – UFBA-BA, Brazil
- Federal University of Bahia / Department of Nuclear Geophysics – UFBA-BA, Brazil
- University of Lisbon / Faculty of Human Kinetics / INET-md, Portugal
SDGs — Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
- Goal 4: Quality Education
- Goal 5: Gender Equality
- Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
- Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Funding
- CNPq 420222/2022-7
- FCT Multiannual Funding UIDB/00472/2020
- FCT PhD grant 2021.07216.BD