Dançaeira : O Corpo Feminino Afro-amazônico nas Malandragens e Vadiagens da Capoeira para a decolonização em Dança Contemporânea

Abstract

The artistic-cultural paths and journeys along the Icoaraci-Belém and Belém-Icoaraci transits enabled the Afro-Amazonian female body, immersed in relationships with dance and capoeira, to build the epistemological praxis Dançaeira. On these paths, memories were triggered from childhood in backyards, streets, schools, artistic-cultural experiences with dance and capoeira, following a trajectory of girl-woman-mother-educator-teacher-researcher, revealing the “living ancestry” that is present from the ancestral women who live in me. I call on three sisters who wield the berimbau together with me and decolonize power in dance in the Amazon with their poetics of “RE-existence”. I present possibilities for decolonial theoretical-methodological paths in contemporary dance, following na autoethnographic flux, by Fortin, sustained by the NOS-NÓS in which the “ties bind” with the world around us, with the doings, knowledges and powers are realized from the perspective of malandragem. Capoeira songs, poetry and authorial poetry-songs, photo images and video prints of immersions during the research, authorial drawings emanate reflections of the process and the striking presence of the berimbau, which impels the voice of the female body with its sounds and touches, endorse the methodological path of the research. The interplay of the dançaeirantes dialogues took in contributions from Freire, the pedagogical Praxis; Santos and Menezes, the Epistemologies of the South and; Costa, Torres and Grosfoguel, Decoloniality, which substantiate the non-hierarchical methodology that reveals the symbolism and meanings of the seven elements of the Dançaeira in order to awaken them in you, from the Amazon to the world.