Corporeal Geographies

This project results from an artistic research on body, disability and dance. It is composed of narratives on a dialogue among multiple corporealities, that is, between normative and non-normative bodies, aiming at questioning and destabilising the idea of a universal normal body. This dialogue happens between people with and without disabilities who participate in a research group on movement based on dance, named Te Encontro Lá no Cacilda, in a theatre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project reflects my interest in understanding how normative and non-normative bodies create embodied narratives in their relation between movement and stillness; how those bodies experience dance not as a way to conform to a standard, but to inhabit their specific corporeal geographies in search of freedom and harmony of their body lines, in the process of defining the limits of their physical, psychic and discursive contours. This project also includes literary texts by the Portuguese writer Paulo Kellerman.