Nina Verchinina e a dança moderna brasileira: o papel da crítica jornalística na formação de um pensamento em dança

Abstract

The main aim of this project from the specialized jornalistic critic point of view, is to show the body as elaborated by Nina Verchinina, describing not her modern dance technique, but the body formulations that allow her students and dancers to executesteps and dance sequencies. In this way, the goal is to outline the qualities of the "verchinian" body and how it inscribes itself in the time-space relationship. This view takes into account not the choreographic aspects of her work, but the conditions that allowed Verchinina to elaborate her thoughts. In arder to analyse and understand this process, five choreographies were selected (four of Diaghilev's Ballets Russesand one of Original Ballet Russe), works that represented a panel of the transformations that occurred throughout the years they were presented. To understand these modifications, shown at the, stage and pointed by the critics, is also to realize how a dancer from a classical background, such as Nina Verchinina, created a modern vocabulary of movement th'rough space