EDUCATIONAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DANCE, DANCE EDUCATION AND PAULO FREIRE

Abstract

The article aims at identifying possible encounters between dance, dance education and Freire's humanizing education. In addition to reading articles and academic works about dance, the pedagogies of Paulo Freire were examined. Based on this bibliographic research some points of convergence between dance, in its educational principle, and Freire's education, in its liberating sense, were noted. From this convergence five fundamental encounters were reached between dance, dance education and Freire's humanizing education, namely: dance - movement, dance - emancipation, dance - body wet with culture, dance - communication and dance - consciousness. In conclusion, dance is highlighted as a complex liberating exercise of the human being in the world. Dancing cannot be reduced to a mechanical task of the body. On the contrary, dance is a human attitude, a doing of oneself, a putting oneself as a body in movement, as a body conscious of itself and of the world.