Memória e oralidade em 'Mãe das águas': performance de narradores em Icoaraci

Abstract

The research entitled “MEMORY AND ORALITY IN MOTHER OF WATERS. Storytellers performance in Icoaraci" that we presented to the graduate ARTS PROGRAM (PPGARTES), is associate to the Research Line Creation and Performance in Art Process, Institute of Sciences of Arts-ICA, Federal University of Pará. The work exposes the trajectory and involvement with storytellers of Icoaraci, seeking to shows highlight the richness of the intangible heritage of this community. The main objective is to record the narratives, with emphasis on memory and performance counters of the same in narrating the facts. We seek to further demonstrate and highlight the importance of memory as an element constructor of the identities of people in this place. The narratives were collected in the "Rodas de Conversas" and emerge from them looks and talk about the place; knowledge and curiosities; particularities and common or distinct points. Participants of this Rodas materialize, through word, gestures, facial and body expressions, events, real or imagined experiences, which, in most cases, relate to the Amazonian identity of our people. The voice, the gestures, the body, silence, expressing feelings that come from these reminiscences. The recalled memory - and sometimes overlooked - perpetuates experiences of individuals who live the present with memories of the past; no longer be seen through performance; take shape and bring the current memories and images of bygone eras and events now. The work is guided worth that memory, and was performed by orality, has to affirmation, belonging and empowerment of these little guys whose stories appear in the literate world, defender of historical accounts that strive for truth from facts, a record of those memories, fundamental to community and the individuals and/or residents of Icoaraci, whether belonging (or not) to this research.