Fame Companhia de Dança: caminhos e transformações da dança jazz na contemporaneidade em Belém do Pará

Abstract

This paper deals with the jazz dance in contemporary times, through a personal experience in Fame - one Belém do Pará dance company, which proposes to dance jazz and is under the direction of this researcher. In this research, jazz is understood as a dance genre in constant transformation. Know and understand jazz dance made this dance company, are the objectives of this work that makes Fame a starting point for understanding the features and changes occurring in this dance today. The research was conducted participant form. A dialogue between researcher, authors and performers of Fame Dance Company was traced in this way, revealing a dance several ways. At this dance as hybrid, flexible, full of influences and at the same time, stuck in the drive constantly changing, called Jazz dance. The speech of the performers had equal importance, given that they were instrumental in this research. I found light in contemporary thought of Ana Flavia Mendes, similarities in Jussara Miller research, inspiration in thinking by image Sonia Rangel and reflections on Etnocenologia Armindo Bião. So I consider my writing transdisciplinary character.