Ethnographic practice of contemporary dance in Maputo: fieldwork

Abstract

This is a project to realize the ethnographic practice of Contemporary Dance, in Maputo city, Mozambique, Africa. Will be done fieldwork to collect ethnographic data about this artistic practice, informing the research in development. The data collect, experimental, will be done by participative observation in contemporary dance technique classes, artistic creations processes, discussions forums, watching spectacles, interviews with artists, producers and researchers, and performances. In methodologies terms, the artistic posture will be the entrance door to the fieldwork. The ethnographic practice of contemporary dance brings together another interest: the research process in the Art domain. Will be realized Analytics Creative Practices like writing procedure. Data will be collected, registered, and analyzed in an institutionalized conversation (by this project) with researchers of School of Communication and Arts (ECA), University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), trying to expand the phenomena perception in relation with the academic local production. This project must be seen like a part of the project of PHD in Education, Knowledge, Language and Art, which is in development from the Education Faculty in Unicamp. It is part of a research line in Art and Contemporaneity. (AU)