Da lamparina aos refletores: memórias e (in) performatividades em dança de salão de uma artista da Amazônia

Abstract

This master's thesis proposes to study the inter-relations surrounding knowledge, cultural manifestations and artistic productions in the Amazonian sociocultural context, from intrafamily and scenic bodily memories through research and experiences with ballroom dancing. The theoretical-methodological route allows one to expand and substantiate analyses based on the field of Performance studies, with Schechner (2003) and Ligiéro (2011); In acts/actions that permeates the concepts of performance and performativity with Galucci (2010) and Lopes (2010); And of the studies of memory, with Le Goff (2003), Asman (2016), Pollak (1992), among others, reflecting on the social, cultural and communicative functions of memory. Thus, this work seeks to discuss the artistic experience with and from the ballroom dance, in dialogue with personal and collective experiences triggered by reminiscing about and observing performances that have presented themselves during the course of our research. In this way, experimentations and experiences derived from investigation have provided diverse practices proferring new possibilities of creation, of art/dance teaching from the context of thought to performing a dance or two, snuggle in a Brazilian embrace, from Invitation made by an artist-researcher in the Amazon.