Modos de subjetivación de jóvenes que danzan en escenarios de universidad, academia y autoformación

Abstract

This research was conducted in order to answer the question of how to configure the modes of subjectivation of the young people dancing on the stages of universities, academies and self-training, for which a methodology was implemented using a biographical perspective, because this approach is highly relevant to reach the personal constructions of meaning and provides an opportunity to favour the subjects' personal versions and understand their processes of subjectivation (Bolívar, 2001).

From the proposed analysis, it was identified that the processes of subjectivation occur in two ways: one which is subjected to the structures of power circulating in prescribed training stages, and the other which follows nonlinear transits, featuring each young person, and based upon points of view generated by their family characteristics, socioeconomic conditions, educational paths, relevant relationships and lifestyles.

These aspects shed light on how the young people chose certain settings for dance company practice, which confer meanings specific to the individual, following certain practices of their upbringing and metamorphose their identities and environments, through experiences that only occur in an artistic performance acted out by the individual. Similarly, access to some experiences that reflect the daily life of the childhood years, crisscrossed by choice or construction of certain aesthetics and styles, allowed to realize how dance tempers the experience of being young, with processes subjectivation, including from the use of the body par excellence, rather than from appearances associated with consumer trends of youth cultures.