Artigo publicado na Revista Grata ao Potlach, participante das Jornadas, Fabiana Grassi Mayca, Amanda Massucci Batista, Rodrigo Goncalves, e as colaboracoes que recebi da Marisa Naspolini, Diana Gilardenghi, Alberto Heller , e a interlocucao com Marcos Jose Muller, Lisia Goncalves de Araujo e as alunas que participaram das Jornadas.Resumo A leitura do presente texto sugere uma fenomenologia da danca ao mostrar como o corpo vivido e o sentido atraves do qual compreendemos o que e ser humano. Com isso,apresento a cegueira como experiencia perceptiva. Proponho as Jornadas, um processo criativo para apreciacao da danca, fundamentadas em uma experiencia intuitiva e estetica. Descrevo a experiencia de composicao coreografica de uma dancarina com cegueira congenita. Explicito, atraves da vivencia das jornadas e da experiencia com a cegueira, como o corpo, ao ser apreendido como casa da memoria, revela-se como fluxo temporal. Finalizo tecendo consideracoes acerca da aprendizagem e da apreciacao da danca na formacao de professores. Palavras-chave: danca, cegueira, fenomenologia, corpo, memoria.Lancamento da Revista Danca n.4Revista Danca PPGDancaRevista Dancahttp://www.portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/revistadancaouwww.revistadanca.ufba.br High Culture, Mass Culture, Urban Culture- Whose Dance?University of Cape Town, South Africa16-19 July 2008 The Confluences 5, which theme was the title of this conference report, invited us to think on urban culture and its engagement with contemporary theatre dance. The conference took place on 16-19 July hosted by the University of Cape Town School of Dance, chaired by Sharon Friedman, sponsored by The University of Cape Town, The Royal Netherdlands Embassy, The national Research Foundation, Cape Tercentenary Foundation and Distell. In the words of Gerard Samuel, School of Dance Director: To all the Confluences 5 keynote speakers, presenters, and workshop facilitators, your insights will not only stimulate but provoke the necessary debate around Dance we are delighted to referee over this historic period. As dance students teachers, choreographers and dance directors Confluences 5 allows us all to celebrate in the transformative power of Dance. The programmed proposal that in a social and political climate of globalization and the seemingly first world ease and flow knowledge, developing countries often buy into the contemporary social and artistic trends of other countries. This is evident in the growth of hip-hop culture and dance around the world. The Confluences 5 aimed to open for discussion, the relationship between popular culture, high art, and all the myriad categories/groupings in between and the manner in which they interface with the creative and education desire to journey into the new territory. We had the possibility to debate interesting ideas on the value of contemporary dance theatre engaging forms of urban culture, Brenda Dixon Gottschild gave the keynote, titled Researching performance the (Black) Dancing body as a measure of culture. By means of a slide lecture augmented with demonstration of her own dancing body, she examines the pervasive Africanist presence in America culture ant the socio-political implications of its invisibility. With dance as the focus and the race the parameter, she reveals Africanisms in modern and postmodern and American ballet. Other keynote speaker was Emile YX?, he is often considered to be one of the Godfathers of South African Hip Hop