Dance researcher, teacher and critic. PhD candidate in Performing Arts at USP, FAPESP scholarship holder, master in Arts at UFMG, bachelor's and bachelor's degree in Dance at UFV, technical degree in Dance at ETAM Santa Cecília. Member of the LADCOR PPGAC/ECA/USP research group. Works with people deprived of liberty, researches corporeality through the analysis of movement with an interest in contemporary dance styles and their political and aesthetic reverberations in the educational and social spheres.
Professor of Contemporary Dance. Master's and PhD in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Professor at the Department of Performing Arts at the University of São Paulo and coordinator of the LADCOR research group.
The paper focuses on the interest of the debate on dance as a fable-making strategy, that aims to break with incarceration as a punitive measure, intersecting confrontations, questioning, and discussions about the public policies of a system marked by decay. To this end, we mobilized projections of personal and collective experiences, by establishing a space for listening and acknowledging stories, aiming to build possibilities for life after incarceration. The on-site research was conduxted in a São Paulo penitentiary. In preparing this text, we articulated the listening approach from the studies of Body Without Will by researcher and choreographer Helena Bastos (2017), and dance concepts based on the
research of dance theorist and critic of dance André Lepecki (2012, 2017). We also drew on analyses of the punitive system by North American feminist researcher Angela Davis (2018) and conceptualizations of incarceration in Latin America, based on the studies from jurist Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni (2024), articulated with the work of artist and author Jota Mombaça (2021). To illustrate the text, we present one of the activities developed within the prison unit in which the fabulatory practices were conducted.
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Mombaça, J. (2021). Não vão nos matar agora (1ª ed.). Cobogó.
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Venturelli, C. M., & Elkis, I. C. (2021). Gestos barreiras e Lab. Trincheira: Relatos sobre criação de dança em tempos pandêmicos. In H. Bastos (Org.), Coisas vivas: Fluxos que informam (pp. 52-73). ECA-USP.
Zaffaroni, E. R. (2024). Colonização punitiva e totalitarismo financeiro: A criminologia do ser-aqui (J. Tavares, Trad. e Apres.; 2.ª ed.). Da Vinci Livros.