Flowing futures:

performance, dance and education

Abstract

This research is an affective cartography that navigates the cracks, margins, and flows of the educational space, investigating the urgent possibilities of perception and action of the body in dance and performance. The methodology is built upon the currents of cartography (Rolnik, 1989) combined with practice as research (Nelson, 2022) and critical-performative pedagogy (Pineau, 2013; McLaren, 1992). The objective is to trace paths that reinvent educational spaces, understood here as places that shape bodies according to their specificities, as environments of experimentation, encounters, failures, and reinvention. This journey, rather than seeking definitive answers, affirms the urgency of moving towards political action. It does not end in conclusions, but rather in perspectives and clues that advocate for the school as an open margin, dance as an invitation to the embodiment of revolts, and the body as a living current reinventing the daily life. How many attempts will be necessary until the school also becomes a body? How can we think of this dancing body as a device to subvert the paralyzing logics within teaching environments? What can this body move in the face of these structures?