Dancer — Researcher — Performer: A Learning Process (Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance)

The author presents the method of research and creation in dance and theater in Brazil, called Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (Dancer-Researcher-Performer, BPI), which was created by the author herself. Through field research of ritual and Brazilian popular manifestations the author formulates a proposal for body work. She analyzes dance as an activity in which several bodies are integrated to generate knowledge in the sensitive, the perceptible and human relationships from direct contact with the surrounding reality. BPI aims to build a flexible and individualized body, in which the subject has room to develop. It emphasizes the need for a more responsible contact with certain Brazilian cultural segments so that stereotypes of a dance based on an ethnocentric view are not reinforced.

Graziela Rodrigues is Full Professor of the Department of Dance at the Art Institute of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She works as a dancer, choreographer, actress, director, and psychologist and received a PhD in Arts (UNICAMP).