Youth people, dances and public policies

dancing as expression, voice and resistance

Abstract

We start from the context of violences, necropolitics, silencing, and exclusion from cultural policies of youth in Brazil. Drawing from social psychology and education, we highlight the body and dance into politics and the production of encounters. We bring excerpts from master's research conducted with 11 young people from a dance Company, operating within the spheres of cultural and educational public policies. Employing cartographic methodologies, meetings with the Company were held, along with responses to online questionnaires and some interviews. Thus, with the experiences of/with young people, we mapped four movements that dancing produces in this territory: "Dance circle", dancing as expression, voice, and resistance; "From 20 dancers it became one person", a collective body; "a place of dreams", production of dreams and seeds of the future; "I met the DANCE", education policy and references. Dance has the potency in producing encounters and affections, establishing political connections with the territory