Time and Death Sustainable and Innovative Forces in Dance

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.150333

Abstract

This text explores the relationship between time and death as sustainable and innovative forces in dance, based on an interview-conversation with the dancer Ana Medeiros, conducted within the context of doctoral research in Performing Arts at UFRGS. The investigation aims to understand how mature bodies remain in dance, emphasizing the importance of processes of transformation, finitude, and continuity in artistic construction. The conversation highlights orality as a tool for resignifying memories and experiences, emphasizing dance as a practice inseparable from daily life. Ana Medeiros’ trajectory reveals aesthetic and existential shifts, from her initial training in classical ballet to her encounter with Martha Graham’s modern dance and, later, with Butoh. The text discusses death not as an interruption, but as a constitutive element of life and artistic creation. Thus, death becomes a condition for the renewal of life and art, and dance is understood as a way of existing that integrates life, death, and transformation in a continuous flow.

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Thais Regina Villanova Petzhold, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil

Mestre e doutoranda em Artes Cênicas no PPGAC da UFRGS. Artista, pesquisadora e professora em dança. Atua em cena e para a cena desde 1989. Suas pesquisas acadêmicas estão voltadas para a etnografia e auto-etnografia observando a intersecção entre práticas artísticas e cotidianas como simultâneas experiências formadoras dos processos e produtos da dança.

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2026-04-29

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Villanova Petzhold, T. R. (2026). Time and Death Sustainable and Innovative Forces in Dance. Revista Cena, 44(2). https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.150333

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Vol. 44 No. 2 (2026): Revista Cena: Dossiê O Lugar do Envelhecimento nas Artes Cênicas – Parte II

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Entrevistas

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