“Esbravejação”

cartography of a wearable in flow in its vital movements

Abstract

In this text, I present the creative process of the dance piece Esbravejação, a dance that occurs in the meeting between a body and a flexible wearable, composed of a structure of plastic heads. Considering the process as processuality, the methodology adopted is that of cartography, which, unlike a map, is a dynamic drawing that unfolds along the walk, the research, in which movements, flows, changes, encounters, and destabilizations that produce the work in its vitality are of interest. In this walk, some authors are invited to contribute to this fabric, such as Ingold and the proposal to bring things back to life, understanding vital flow through the relationship between materials and forces rather than between matters and forms; Suely Rolnik, who addresses the vibrational body, understood as the intensive exercise of the sensitive, among others. As a dancing cartographer, it is through the clues presented in this cartography that I revisit the proposal of flowable wearables to reflect on the possible creative, healing, and also artistic-pedagogical movements enabled by this practice in the training of live arts artists, as well as future costume designers in the contemporary context of the arts. The text aims to update the practice of flowable wearables as one of the provocative strategies for creative and healing movements, capable of opening bodies to a porous, dialogical, and non-hierarchical experience, allowing them to be moved by the things of the world in their vital entanglements.