ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is to discuss an artistic experience with disability in the realm of dance. To do so, I made a photo essay with Pulsar, a Brazilian dance company, composed of dancers with normative and non-normative bodies, whose artistic proposal is to create a dialogue between spectators and different corporealities, and a research group on movement based on dance as an extension of Pulsar, named Te encontro lá no Cacilda, composed of participants with different disabilities. This chapter and its photo collages are based on the collaborative exhibition “Corporeal Geographies,” which involves photography, literature, and dance. Using the images as a material basis for the discussion, I explored some ideas concerning the embodied narratives performed by the dancers and captured by my camera, and the role of art in considering disability as part of human variability and as a form of resistance to understand disability within a normality frame. The embodied narratives point to creative processes that evoke an aesthetic resilience to politically reaffirm difference and multiplicity in contemporary artistic scenarios.
