{"id":327,"date":"2018-10-25T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=327"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:43:35","slug":"dance-performance-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/2018\/10\/25\/dance-performance-and-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance, performance and gender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcelo de Andrade Pereira, Professor, Associate-editor, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If there are two key aspects, among many others, to understand the research in scenic arts and the decolonial theme, we can say that the first one concerns the fact that much of the research in the area calls itself “poetics research” (BRITES and TESSLER, 2002). This means that we are facing a type of research in which the researcher coincides with the artist. To put it in another way, it is from its own creation process that the research is materialized. Thus, we are not facing a research “about” art, but “on” art, i.e., the creation process itself is the research. This perspective is linked to the decolonial perspective, since, once again, it places artists in the place of speech (and action\/ intervention) of knowledge production and no longer (or not only) as study objects by non-artist specialists.<\/p>\n

The second aspect concerns the topics dear to the resistance process, to subordinateness and to prejudices of all kinds (QUIJANO, 2005). Here, in this research field, gender relations and issues have been central. They show, for example, that gender, among other possibilities, is not a naturalized category and as social construction may and should be taken as the body\u2019s political device.<\/p>\n

These two aspects and a few others are central to the study “Representing the hyphen,” published in the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies (v.8, n. 4), by New Zealand researcher and artist Miki Seifert, who works specifically with the Butoh dance. In the sequence, she presents her research work and shows images of the show, object of her article.<\/p>\n