Body, City and Image: thinking about educational practices in the field of arts

Abstract

This article presents reflections of a pedagogical-affective experience carried out during my doctoral research, between the years 2018 and 2022. From the articulation between the concepts of memory, image, body and city, a qualitative investigation was held with students of a Dance Degree course at the Federal Institute of Goiás, which finds in the (auto)biographical narrative approach bases for its development. Anchored in the principles of visual culture education, I weave a writing that establishes dialogic relationships with imagens and dance aesthetic-affective knowledge, body’s subjectivities and its potentials in teaching spaces. I discuss ways in which the body can be affected by city images, seeking to understand how these crossings impact the formation of individuals and generate learning through movement and performance, intensifying self-perceptions and pedagogical appropriations of spaces inside and outside schools. The results of the study reveal a construction of sensitive knowledge for the individuals themselves, from their body movement in connection with memories and aspects/episodes of their life stories. They demonstrate yet, the possibility of the use of images with cities through dance and performance, projecting potentialities of use an appropriation of public spaces.