Retrato de picadeiros: memórias de uma trajetória de circo na Amazônia paraense

Abstract

This dissertation studies the socio-historical trajectory of circus artists in the region of Pará, in order to investigate the circumstances of the circus production in the city of Belém, based on a critical analysis of the narrative collected with the subjects: artists, troupes and companies of the urban and street circus activities Circo Broadway, Circo Mega-show, Circo Atlántico; Circo Dralion; Circo Houston, local circus masters teachers and former students and teachers of the Escola Circo Mano Silva. The research aims to explore memory as a possibility of reconstituting and update past experiences, reflecting aspects of the circus collective identity under the methodological perspective of Oral History and material Biblio-Infographic on the theme of the circus and circus activities. Taking as points of reflection theory topics of nomadism, from Michel Maffesoli, some of the concepts of habitus structure, from Pierre Bourdieu, and circus convivial sense of Ermínia Silva, who support the comprehension that the circus has its existence based on a web of relationships of affection, tensions and overruns, configuring itself as an artistic and social collective context in which the specificities in the practice of circus and the personal and professional ties have always been at the root of the processes of construction and maintenance of the activities with circus in the Pará Amazon.