The Uncanny: function~monster and the creation in dance.
Body. Creation. Dance. Uncanny. Function~monster.
This thesis discusses a field of investigations around the link between monstrosities, body and creation in dance. It aims to investigate the impact of theories of monstrosity (COHEN, 2000; COURTINE, 2011, 2013; GIL, 2006; SILVA, 2000; TUCHERMAN, 1999) when applied to creative processes in dance, insofar as they can reveal ways to produce strangeness in the experiences of body, affection and sensibilities, destabilizing the relationship between dance creation and subjectivation processes. Starting from a methodology anchored in artistic praxis, with the Bartenieff Fundamentals as a basis for training the scenic body and the labyrinth as a methodological reference (FEITOSA, 2002), we propose, by analyzing three compositional processes in dance, to reflect on how monsters can disorganize creative thought, subjectivity and the body in dance in order to strange, rethink and eventually dismantle existing creation policies in a certain artistic~choreographic path that exists in a specific territory. The intention is, finally, from the field of psychoanalysis, to think the monster as a catalyzing and/or destabilizing agent of psychic constructions that can be experienced in creative processes from the notion of strange/uncanny/infamiliar/uncomfortable (FREUD, 2006, 2021, 2019, 2010b). To this end, strategies of singularization and subjectivation of monsters are proposed, through the creative operators of the infamiliar, which act in particular and situated creation experiences, as destabilizing triggers in creative processes in dance. We thus surround, from the fields of the theories of monstrosity and subjectivation, the notion of function~monster as a strategy of creation in performing arts, where the monster plays a destabilizing function in creative processes, in a specific territory of production.