Body-in-flow: links between dance, education and health

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Cláudia Regina Garcia Millás. Body-in-flow: links between dance, education and health. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, e200376  .  Epub 2021. eISSN 1807-5762. https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200376

 

This article addresses the relationship between dance, education and health through the analysis of and reflection upon situations arising from teaching activities on a dance degree course at a public university in Brazil. We study the experiences, highlighting the pedagogical concepts and strategies developed in the Acrobatic Dance modules. The findings show that the educational activities helped create a space of healing as a transformative power, in which students could emancipate themselves from particular conditions and gain access to different perspectives on life, feeling connected to themselves, others and the environment. The term body-in-flow is employed as a bodily state in which the practitioner, by placing him/herself in the moment, whole and present in the action, undoes self-concepts, allowing others to be created.

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Keywords: Dance; Body; Higher education; Health