Corpo, memória e território: práticas pedagógicas a partir dos elementos das danças negras como expressividade corporal

Abstract

This research is the awakening to the sound of ancestral drums, silenced during the degree at Theater at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. In a descriptive and reflective movement on the recognition of affective and epistemological narratives, awakened through the contact rooted with Afro diasporic dances. Faced with the experience of reconnecting with my ancestrality and working with the body in theater training, I begin to explore the energetic power of dance and its pre-expressive role in the scene, as a physical trainer in theatre. This article discusses educational art practices, centered on Afro-Brazilian references and on practices constituted through Afrobeats as a pedagogy of the body in theater. As a result of these experiments, a methodology was developed for the elaboration of body workshops, investigating the consequences that black dance can provoke in the individual and in the daily life of theater teaching in Brazil.