Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Recognizing music as one of the most democratic arts, especially with regard to its access and evaluating the capacity of influence on our state of health, we believe in the power of the our dialogic workshop, developed in Rio de Janeiro. The workshop aims to promote health and health education, together and through the practical teaching of music and sounds and the sensitization of the body to the movement, in order to develop a constant exchange between facilitators and other participants, to empower human beings. The workshop was first held in February 2017. This work is a qualitative and transdisciplinary research based on the Art-Based Reaserch method (ABR). Dialogical Workshops on Sound and Body Language are being structured, also with anthropological research in sound / music, education and health, aimed at different audiences. The group works based on invitations from various organs and institutions of Brazilian society, mainly from the health and education sectors. The choice and definition of the repertoire are influenced by cultural aspects of the target audience and contains hits from Brazilian popular music. The group uses varied percussion instruments. Besides the percussive, the guitar complete the musicality. Participants’ response to workshops has been positive, showing involvement and enthusiasm with most activities. Music/sound is analyzed as: dance, health, performance, culture, exposing the intrinsic characteristic of life that, however, is so neglected today: transdisciplinarity. In this way, theory and practice are combined - thinking and doing.