Vestigios de Cuerpos en Círculos: Comprensiones del yo Relacional en los Encuentros Urbanos de 2 Jóvenes que Practican Arte Circense en Bogotá.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to understand how circus art configures the construction of the relational self in two young adults between 22-25 years old in the city of Bogota who practice circus arts outside the circus stage, these understandings are given with a social constructionist reading, having relation with the research line Psychology, subjectivity and identities of the Universidad Santo Tomás. In the same line, the qualitative approach was used to collect information through 4 meetings; participant observation and semi-structured interview, body mapping and focus group were used; the research method used was performative ethnography. A categorical analysis was made with the purpose of descriptively ordering the data starting from the category of relational self and the subcategories that emerged (corporeality and political). After the research was carried out, a triangulation was made and it became evident that the practice of circus art is directly related to the processes of formation of the relational self and this in turn is permeated by the subcategories mentioned above.