Dance and teaching: an experience report in the university extension in Diamantina-MG

Dancing is not just about decorating and performing previously established steps, it is necessary to understand dance as a creation system that promotes the research of gestures and the deepening of one’s own being. The objective of this work is to present an experience report with the dance teaching process in the context of university extension in Diamantina-MG. There will be a presentation of the concept of dance, body and teaching developed in the poetics of the body project, as well as a set of procedures that aim to demonstrate the appropriation of creative elements in the pedagogical context of teaching dance. Some of the project’s achievements were the enthusiasm for research and gestural creation, which resulted in the opening of interpretative horizons about what dance is and which bodies can dance. It is necessary to expand and promote the spaces for artistic creation in the university environment, as they contribute to the human and artistic training of those involved.