Qualidade e cinesfera do movimento de jogadores de basquetebol em cadeira de rodas

Este estudo de caráter descritivo teve como objetivo investigar a qualidade e cinesfera dos movimentos dos membros superiores de jogadores de basquete em cadeira de rodas da Associação Rio-grandense de Paralíticos e Amputados. A revisão de literatura destacou a caracterização da pessoa portadora de deficiência motora e o basquete em cadeira de rodas, assim como o significado, a qualidade e cinesfera do movimento humano. Não tendo sido encontrada literatura sobre pesquisas realizadas a respeito desse assunto quanto ao usuário da cadeira de rodas, a coleta dos dados ocorreu através de entrevistas, filmagens e fichas de observação, o que possibilitou a análise e interpretação da qualidade e cinesfera dos indivíduos da amostra. Com os resultados obtidos, foi possível verificar que, em todos os movimentos locomotores, manipulativos, estabilizantes e expressivos, os indivíduos apresentaram uma qualidade própria dentro dos fatores do movimento (peso, tempo, espaço e fluência); foram também identificadas combinações entre estes fatores (caracterizando ações básicas de esforço). Quanto à cinesfera dos movimentos dos membros superiores, os indivíduos observados, portadores de deficiência motora, demonstraram explorar diferentes direções espaciais (dimensionais, diametrais e diagonais), predominando a direção espacial diametral, denominada de movimento das ações práticas.

As inter-ações entre espaço do corpo e o movimento dançado

This dissertation seeks to reflect about the relations between danced movement and body space (Kinesphere), and their contributions to the expansion of the expressive possibilities of the subject on dancing. According to Rudolf Laban there is no space that is empty, because it is always being modified and signified at every moment by the movement. Space exists because we interact with it, at the same time movement occours configuring a signifcant space that is incessantly transformed. In this sense, space, body and movement appear in this research as interconnected and interdependent. For this discussion we have as main interlocutor the studies of Rudolf Laban. The nature of this research is qualitative and descriptive. This is a context that embraces the phenomenon of dance and as such it is based on a dimension that doesn't deal with mensurability, but with the art scene, fruitful in its infinite openness to the creation of multiple significances for what has been lived. We also propose to present a report about the practical study developed in the discipline Coreologia in the licentiate course of Dance in UFRN, as well as the analysis of the interviews applied to students of this curricular component. The questions were developed in a way that lead to a reflection about the experience of those interviewed in this discipline, thus generating material for us to discuss how the students perceive dance based on the relational study between space and movement. We realize that this study may favor an understanding of the relations that the experienced movement in the act of the dance weaves along the spatiality that receives and fills our bodies, resignifying the vision of a space which is restrict to the mere place were the body moves and occupies. It also favors the reflections concerning the body that moves and creates spatiality when dancing, thereby bringing to the Performing Arts a chance to think and to experience on the expansion of the expressive gesture in dance and beyond it, led by the recognition of the principles that organize human movement pointed by Laban. It also contributes on the formation of the students in licentiate courses of Dance by questioning the ways to appropriate the contents worked in a graduation discipline as regards to the availability of the body for dance. This dissertation is divided in three parts, called Impulsos. In the First Impulso: “Primeiros Gestos Textuais”, we find an introduction to concepts and ideas of body, movement and space that permeates all the work. In the Second Impulso: "Nós", the triad body-space-motion is discussed using the metaphorical image of a knot that binds these three concepts. The third and final Impulso: "Enlaces" deal with impressions and discoveries lived during the experimentation of the principles of inter-actions studied here, in the lessons of the already mentioned discipline