Communicative Practices in Dance: A Case Study of Balcón de los Artistas as a Platform for Artistic Expression and the Creation of Bodily Narratives among Children and Youth in the City of Medellín (Colombia)
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Autores: Marcos Fidel Vega Seña
, Carlos Mario Cano Ramírez, Sara Paulina Gómez Guerra
- Localización: Anagramas: Rumbos y sentidos de la comunicación, ISSN 1692-2522, Vol. 23, Nº. 45, 2024, págs. 1-26
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
This research aimed to analyze the communicative practices fostered through dance, as an artistic and bodily expression among children and youth, in the activities promoted by Balcón de los Artistas [The Artists’ Balcony] —a corporation known as promoting social change in Manrique neighborhood, in the city of Medellín, Colombia. Following the theory of symbolic interactionism, this qualitative study gathered data through six semi-structured interviews with the corporation members.
The focus on the body as a means of communication through the dance practices promoted by this corporation is interesting for the field of social communication. Additionally, we discussed gesture in dance as a form of communication among children and young dancers in this collective, and examined the communicative intent of bodily narratives from an interactional and proxemics approach. From the six findings, we can highlight that this space of expression and creation generates experiences of change among its members in a subjective level and also in their social interaction environment.
