A pedagogia Waldorf como palco para o jovem dançar

Abstract

The present work aims to investigate possible relationships of young people in the third seven-year-period with an approach to dance as a language in the Waldorf pedagogy. To this end, anthropological questions about young people are presented, based mainly on the literature review of Steiner’s and Livegoed’s studies. At the third seven-year-period, according to Steiner, the development of the astral body takes place and, with it, several challenges. Steiner (2014) points out that the astral body is based on corporeality. As well as the language of dance that has its foundation in the body. In order to contex-tualize dance in education, the research ad-dresses definitions and objectives of working with the language of dance pointed out in the National Common Curricular Base formula-ting questions: how can dance be worked in Waldorf school in a way that enables young people to have a healthy space to deal with the challenges of development? What would be an approach to dance aligned with Wal-dorf pedagogy that could serve as a space for the development of young people? For this purpose, the research investigates the choreological elements developed by Rudolf Laban, a dance theorist, as an instrument for the phenomenological view proposed by Goethe and Rudolf Steiner. The language of dance puts us face to face with the human being in his or her movement; the language of dance seeks the expressiveness of the human being in the body; the language of dance sensitizes the body of the dancer and offers a corporeal structure to investigate the way people feel. Goethe’s phenomenology and the choreological elements develo-ped by Laban come together to enhance the doing, the understanding, the enjoyment of the art of dance and the development of the young person as a whole.