Dancing Memories: The Transience of Experience
ValeskaFigueiredo

Abstract
This article reports and speculates about the dance composition called Público. Five performers used their own dancing memories to develop the creative material of this work. This corporal research was led due to sensations, perceptions and emotions. For this creation, autofiction was used to widen up possibilities for building meanings. In order to evaluate its creative trajectory, the relationship among memory, emotion and movement is hereby discussed. Also, studies carried out by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson give basis to the idea that time and memory are metaphorical concepts which are interrelated. These authors propose the notion of embodied; it underlines the correlation between past and present perceptions. John Dewey’s conception of aesthetic experience is also an approach here proposed. It is used with the view that part of the creation of the scenic structuring has been deviated from issues and necessities caused by the creative process.

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