Between Real and Virtual Bodies: Contemporary Dance’s Reflexions to Think the Body on Physical Education

Abstract

This research work aims at identifying the new configurations of the body that come from the interconnection between Dance and Technology, as well as understanding in which ways these configurations converge and contribute to the perceiving of the body in Physical Education. The methodologic tool used is image analysis from two dance videos, “Digital Brazuca” (Digital Brazilian) and “Corpo Aberto” (Open Body). The analyzed videos point to a repertoire of knowledge that can be problematized in the field and contribute to reconfiguring the relation between man and the environment. In this sense, they promote plasticity and polisemics in the relations between carbon and sylicon, and they draw other forms of understanding the body that include complexity, uncertainty, reversibility, and discovery.
KEYWORDS: body – contemporary dance – Physical Education.