Lastros e rastros da dança na escola Waldorf

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Abstract

This article reveals an overview of the presence of dance in Waldorf schools in Brazil, presenting and weaving reflections on the answers obtained through the electronic questionnaire Dance in Waldorf pedagogy, which inaugurated one of the arms of the investigation of the research line called “Pé de Dança: pedagogias da dança e antropo-sofia”, coordinated by the authors of this article. Through the questionnaire, among other actions, we seek answers to the biggest question of the collective of researchers: how can dance and its pedagogies dialogue with Waldorf Pedagogy? This ques-tionnaire was available between August 2020 and May 2022, hosted on the Rudolf Steiner Faculty (FRS) website and had the support of the Federation of Waldorf Schools in Brazil (FEWB) for its wide dissemination in order to reach the largest number of agents of this artistic language in schools. It is a mixed, quantitative and qualitative research, with exploratory and descriptive objectives, which has as technical procedures the bibliographic research and the survey, carried out by collecting data via questionnaire. The following authors base the research: Rudolf Steiner; Jonas Bach Jr.;Melanie M. Guerra, among others. The results of this stage of the research point to the relevance of the arts, movement and corporeality in the con-tinuous updating of the Waldorf curriculum; the need to deepen the discussion about dance pedagogies suited to the precepts of this pedagogy; the cultural aspect of dance as a crucial factor for its presence in the cur-riculum and the importance of considering the insertion of dance as a fundamental subject in teacher education.