Corporeal Geographies: dance, body, and disability

The Corporeal Geographies project is a result of a partnership among dance, photography, and literature; Brazilian and Portuguese artists; and academia and art. It comprises imagetic and literary narratives of dialogs among multiple corporeities aimed at destabilizing the universal idea of a normal body. It derives from the interest of analyzing how normative and non-normative bodies experience dance as an attempt to inhabit their corporeal geographies and delineate their physical, psychic, and discursive shape in the relationship between movement and immobility. The work was conducted with participants of the Te Encontro Lei no Cacilda group in 2018, being characterized as an artistic research. The corporeity narratives produced in dancing were captured and translated into photography. These visual texts were subsequently discussed by the photographer and the writer, and based the creation of fictional texts.