Creative analytic practice (CAP): a scenic choreographic experiment as a method of analysis of the ethnographic fieldwork of the artistic practice of contemporary dance in Maputo

Abstract

This 8 week foreign internship in Maputo, Mozambique will be the continuation of the core of a doctoral thesis in which the ethnographical fieldwork made by the project "Ethnographic practice of contemporary dance in Maputo: fieldwork" in 2013 will be analyzed and concluded through a scenic experiment. A collection of carefully organized ethnographical notes that were gathered through participative observation in contemporary dance technique lessons, artistic creation processes, discussions in forums, as an audience member in presentations and various interviews with artists, researchers and producers, compile a set of field journals that will represent the bulk of data to be analyzed. In turn, this analysis will be made both through the perspective of the "artist posture" and Analytical Creative Practices (CAPs) as previously indicated in various Fapesp scientific reports and projects. The culmination of the project will be the production of a choreographic scenic experiment originally titled "Nine2Ms. It's not the ant that rides on horseback. It is the horse that takes the ant". That will be an immersion in the city environment of Maputo. This proposal was approved by a doctoral qualification board held in November of 2014 at the Faculty of Education at the State University of Campinas. (AU)