O espaço como vetor da comunicação: dança e contemporaneidade

Abstract

The hypothesis that guides this dissertation is that the space is put together as a foundation agent of communication processes. The approach to space here is not that which considers it as one of the elements of communication but rather that towards its role of conditioning force to the type of communication that occurs: the space as the communication s vector. The space comprises a variety of contouring and unfolding possibilities and in order to be able to explore them trans-disciplinary means must be used. The approaches realized with such theoretical proposals intend to exercise the multiple and decentralized eye in order to give ground for discussion about space in the communication studies. Apparently, the most common comprehension of the concept of space is that of a place to be filled with objects of all kinds, also bodies. Something like an empty box to be settled. However, researches carried out by different areas of knowledge such as Geography (Milton and Douglas Santos), Architecture (Thom Mayne), Arts (the texts on modern space from Alberto Tassinari, the studies from Giulio Argan on Renaissance and geometrical perspective), Dance (Dulce Aquino), etc., also contributed to the design of another understanding of the subject. It is the body in movement that creates spacing and outstands communication in the processes of creation. In dance, for example, space should neither be understood as one of its elements nor as a place where dancing takes place. Renaissant perception of space still rules the communication media; however the concept of space presented by this dissertation has been more and more perceived - a space that modifies the nature of the intended communication. The election of the performance METAPOLIS, from 2002, of the choreographer Frèdèric Flamand is justified due to the characteristics of his piece that presents friction between two types of space. It declares itself contemporary still perceiving the space as precedent information or as one of the consisting parts of the whole. The presence of Flamand in the media exposes and reinforces the ambivalence of these two statements towards space: his and that of the media. Working in his researches in partnership with renowned architects he explains that the notion of spaces of one-way also implies that the communication established then occurs in the same manner.