Danzando la Psicología Social Comunitaria : revisitando la IAP a partir de un curso de danza en una asociación cultural de barrio

Since March 2008, I have been in the artistic – community work of a cultural society in a slum in Londrina (Brasil), teaching belly dancing to five community leaders and, recently, to other young women too. This text was supposed to be a psycho-social analysis of this process, but it has been so rich that it inspired the opposed movement: to revisit and alterate the Participatory Action-Research, which is the methodological proposal used in Community Psychology practices. This review was done based on what the dance students taught me, on dance and on Peter Spink`s work, which defends the importance of everyday life and reconstructs how could be the research and action in Social Psychology. I propose a libertarian social psychology, grounded in the body and based in everyday life, and following Haraway´s situatedknowledge epistemological proposal (Haraway, 1995).