A dança no Ensino Médio: reflexões sobre estereótipos de gênero e movimento

This article presents a master's degree research that aimed at understanding how dance can become a space and time for sharing experiences in classes of Physical Education in high school. We discuss stereotypes of movement and gender in dance, result of observations in Physical Education classes in high school, wherein the dance was the subject. The collaborators were students from the first year of a high school; the instruments used to collect data were the active observation, a field journal and focus group. The reflections are about the scenarios where the stereotypes of movement and gender have been constituted, resulting thus in thinking and making dance. The results point out that, even nowadays, there is a reproduction of the roles historically represented by men and women and that, although dance is strongly affected by these stereotypes some transgressions or 'audacities' related to movement and gender have started to occur.