Weaving fugitivity with the threads of the body in dance

Abstract

This article focuses on some dance sequences in contemporary Brazilian cinema, trying to perceive how they perform temporalities, territories, and subjectivities – in the face of the restrictions on racialized female bodies. I am proposing to address them as practices of freedom in tight places, referring here both to the constraints and violence that operate on these dancing bodies, as well as to some notions that shape filmic writing. I am interested in understanding how these sequences construct space-times that interrupt a certain teleological flow [of both narrative and History]; bringing attention to the body in performance – and how this movement also put some limits to dance.