ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I reflect on how to write and to dance as part of a creative process of a performance titled Weavers of Existence, allowing me to look for silence in the body. I also sharing some insights from my experience as an African-Brazilian dance researcher in listening to the voice of silence in the national South African post-apartheid body. I highlight some interlacing. First, thinking in the toyi-toyi South African dance, I explore some ideas about the impact of the song in the way we could express the words when we are writing, dancing, and performing. In the second layer, I seek silence in the body, and this involves the dialogue and exchange of correspondence between me and the writer M. NourbeSe Philip. Finally, a last layer is woven with exploring themes such as pain, memory mediated by language, and danced words presenting themselves as witnesses of the silenced voices. The chapter hopes to create a space between reason and emotion, where some realities tend to persevere in being. This is a corpography, and a field of freedom of expression is drawn on the body itself.
