The present study is a fragment of the thesis Dance - Physical Education: (in) tense relations, analyzing senses and meanings derived from curricular standards in teacher education courses, in Physical Education and Dancing, concerning dancing knowledge. It is characterized as a documental research whose main source are the pedagogical projects of Dancing and Physical Education courses, including a pair in Bahia (UFBA) and other in São Paulo (UNICAMP). By analyzing the pedagogical projects we identified that the body has an outstanding presence, being the dimension of the body its biggest focus. But what means for an area of knowledge having the body as its foundational reference?
Dance; Physical Education; body; formation