Altered scenes: the interpretation of space and movement in the choreographic construction of the heart is an organ of fire (2019) and exvote (2020)

Abstract

This academic article reflects on two processes of scenic-choreographic research that, developed by the same team of creative artists, were confronted in two different historical-social contexts: pre-pandemic times and the current ones. In this analysis, it is discovered how the socio-political and cultural conditions that frame artistic research not only fundamentally affect the construction of knowledge, but also contain the possibility of altering the ontological assumptions of the performing arts, allowing such assumptions to be challenged not only because of the artist's desire and urgency to build renewed paths for creation, but because of situations that are primarily distant from the artistic will, such as the confinement and isolation generated in the context of Covid 19.