A criação de Gorete do Cacete: as giras e o corpo brincante do chão batido seridoense

Abstract

The dissertation, entitled “The creation of Gorete do Cacete: The giras and the playing body of the seridoense beaten ground”, reflects on the process of scenic creation developed by the author of the text, based on the investigations of personal and artistic memorial around traditional and ancestral knowledge, from different communities with which she lived during a long journey, which also precedes the path of this master’s degree. The methodological proposal “Jogo da Construção Poética” (Poetic Construction Play), conceived by this work’s supervisor, grounded the research in art process, inspiring the author to create the character “Gorete do Cacete”. This proposal allowed for the expansion of rigid and technical concepts, reaching the sensitive field, and thus, from the game of capoeira, dances of life were born, through their own cultural references and their corporal knowledge. In dialogue with other authorships, it salutes the ancestry of a people that came before us and that has its life stories based on the embodied and grounded doing in the sertão of the Seridó in Rio Grande do Norte. In this way, through the stories of the past, bodily discoveries written in the present, and the projections of this embodied knowledge as continuity of the giras lived, this writing is poetic, aiming to reverberate in the time and space of several people forming what the author calls “research in art”. The communities that supported the development of this research were the communities of Povos de Terreiro (Terreiro people), Ilê Axé Afinká - Macaíba/RN, Ilê Axé Odé Layó - Açu/RN, Casa de Jurema Maria Bigode - Macaíba/RN, and communities in research fields in the lands of Bahia, Sergipe, Rio Grande do Norte and the academic communities of UFRN and UFSB.