"Corpografias Afro-orientadas e Ameríndias": cartografias de processos de criação em Dança Teatro Brasileira

Abstract

This is a three-volume PhD dissertation. The first one narrates the invention of Brazil, retells our ancestral history of formation through the bias of corporality and presents the fundamentals of the present project of creation. The second volume narrates a cartographic as well as ethnographic journey across our theoretical-practical activities such as processes of teaching, researching and extension. This will contextualize the reader towards a systemic and networking perspective of this creative process. Finally, the third volume presents this project final structure of this project creation, with its specific oral and written reports, composed as letters by the Afro-Brazilian and Amerindian participants, artists and researchers along more than ten years of artistic and cultural processes experienced as group members. One of this PhD dissertation objectives is to present a cartographic register, besides theoretical-practical reflection upon a long way in the field of performing arts education in relation to traditional peoples, Afro-oriented and Amerindian, who may be recognized as cultural and ethnographic sources of creative processes in Brazilian Dance- Theatre. This research instigates thinking and grounds itself on territory and its cultural potentialities, corpographic, in order to create a complex texture, weaved by a live net of aesthetic, symbolic and mythical experiences by means of rituals, oralities, memories, chants, dances, theatricalities, bibliographies and cosmogenesis. Therefore, this research is composed by diverse layers of communication, each one of them representing methodological choices and instruments necessary to approach the theme by several perspectives. Then, the text brings together a multitude of text genres such as : academic papers, poetic texts, bibliographical review, reflection about journalistic articles, letters, photography, soundtracks, videos, embroidery, engravings, interviews, questionnaires, field research and experiences, which are the raw materials of the creative process presented here. In this sense, the research work is based on cartography, and relies on “Body and ancestrality”( Santos, 1996) as its methodological foundation, in dialogue with Afro-oriented and Amerindian culture and corpography . This may indicate a possibility of the construction of a systemic and intercultural network of experiences in academic teaching, researching and extension activities which converge to Brazilian Dance Theatre poetic, artistic and aesthetic creative processes, away from Eurocentric views, in order to focus on decolonial contexts for Arts. Artisitc, as well as academic and social works were produced by two groups: Gengibre - Interdisciplinary Research, Art and Extension about Popular Culture within Quilombolas peoples from Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais (2004-2009) and Group MANDI’O – Research, Art and Extension about Amerindian Culture, with Guarani and Kaiowá peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul (2010-2017).