Decolonial Praxis: Learning Paths through Dançavivências in Ilhéus.
Learning processes. Creation processes. Dance. Ancestry. Coloniality.
This essay memorial is part of an investigation into possible decolonial practices to
experience processes of creation. It has an artistic-pedagogical character and
continuous learning mediated by the creation processes with dance. Here, we sought
to understand the educational potential of thinking-making art. Thus, dançavivências
recorded in nine videos were created and the scenic action – ASAS – was created in
the process of collective construction in non-formal education spaces. The exercise
was to direct attention to narratives announced in the creations, aware of ancestral
experiences and colonial crossings. For this achievement, the writing of the
experience was one of the methodologies chosen to discuss the artistic-pedagogical
intervention. Along with it, practice-guided research and the notion of unmethod
accompanied both the scenic creation and theoretical elaboration. In this way, the
areas of Education, Dance, Literature and Theater are crossed in order to analyze
the meeting of these blurred borders at the crossroads that passes through decolonial
studies. The pedagogical product was the experience processes of creation in site
Criação com Dança about the creation processes and the documentary about the
creation of the scenic action ASAS, built in collaboration with nine artists from Ilhéus.
Thus, the research is the record of my wandering that unfolds in the encounter with
fifteen creative people over two years of walking and scenic experiments that reelaborate
our lives.