Corpo Griot: narrativas ancestrais em cena

Abstract

This study corresponds to a trajectory of research in dance, which began during the undergraduate period, and which leads to this master's thesis. It ranges from writing to artistic composition, memories in narratives, both of the author's maternal ancestry and her experience in Capoeira Angola. Based on reflections on the original artistic and scientific manifestations, the relationship between body and word, the concept in performing arts called “Griot Body” is proposed. The body that originates its trajectory primarily in the community(ies) of oral tradition and consequently in the performing arts, and that when creating, moving, arguing scenically, transflows into its corporeal speech, its ancestry. As a result of the investigation, we obtained both a creative process also called Corpo Griot, and an internal research methodology, Tramaturgy, a structure through which the meanings between memory, narrative, writing and creative process were woven.