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Volume 12, Issue 1
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Abstract

What if I could use my body-in-motion as a research tool? From the understanding that movement can be a site of knowledge and the body a thinking soma, this article supports a practice of studio laboratory as a somatic method of research, working with Laban’s principles of thinking in movement to investigate the genealogy of Laban practices in Brazil. Based on embodied research perspectives and Rudolf Laban’s praxis that proposes a ‘movement-thinking’ as well as the merging between cognition and action, the laboratory is a way to employ movement practice in the research without focusing on an artistic product but using art as a means of research and not necessarily its end. In this article, I discuss and describe the use of laboratory practice as a method for embodied and somatic research, providing two examples of how this practice was implemented as part of the methodology for drawing the genealogy of Laban practitioners in Brazil.

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E se pudéssemos usar nosso corpo-em-movimento como uma ferramenta de pesquisa? Do entendimento de que movimento pode ser um lócus de conhecimento e o corpo um soma pensante, este artigo propõe a prática de laboratório (em estúdio) como um método somático de pesquisa, trabalhando com o princípio de pensar em movimento (lançado por Laban) para investigar a genealogia das práticas labanianas no Brasil. Baseado em perspectivas de pesquisa incorporada/corporalizada e da práxis de Rudolf Laban, que propõe um ‘pensar em movimento’, como também uma fusão entre cognição e ação, o laboratório é um meio de implementar a prática na pesquisa, sem ter como objetivo um produto artístico, mas usando da arte como meio e não necessariamente o resultado da pesquisa. Neste artigo discuto e descrevo o uso da prática laboratorial como um método de pesquisa incorporada e somática, trazendo dois exemplos de como esta prática foi implementada como parte da metodologia para traçar a genealogia dos artistas labanianos brasileiros.

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The thinking body-in-motion: Studio laboratory practice in researching Laban in Brazil
Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices 12, 77 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00014_1
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Keyword(s): conhecimento somático; embodied research; laboratory; laboratório; pensar-em-movimento; pesquisa incorporada; practice-as-research; prática como pesquisa; Rudolf Laban; somatic knowledge; thinking-in-motion

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