Vieira, Marcilio de SouzaSena, Maria de Fátima Alves de2017-01-272017-01-272016-07-27SENA, Maria de Fátima Alves de. Escolas técnicas de dança: um olhar investigativo sobre a constituição do Centro Educacional Norte-rio-grandense de Artes. 2016. 81f. Dissertação (Mestrado Profissional em Ensino de Artes - Profartes) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/21774The history of the Technical level dance education in Brazil is recent. It has begun in the 1960s and one of the first examples is the School of Theater and Dance of Pará. It is worth mentioning that these schools are linked at its inception to the ideals of the Technical School in Brazil dating from the 1900s which were focused in professionalizing citizens. The research is descriptive qualitative under the bias of the approach to content analysis. It had as object of study was Centro Educacional Norte-Rio-Grandense de Artes (CENA). By using this method of research and in order to apply it, we undressed ourselves of an attitude supported by a rational and linear logic. For the production of research data some procedures were used, such as: literature review, documentary research, living memory sources, interviews for data collection and discussion of data collection. Based on the understanding that the technical dance schools are artistic training places we proposed in this research to present, to discuss and to analyze the Technical Course of Rio Grande do Norte State Dance, as well as its goals and artistic / pedagogical project as professional education. If it has still to understand how it was the creation of the CENA , focusing on social, political and cultural state in order to reflect on the process of formation of the students as regards the method teaching and learning, the dance concepts and pedagogic countersigned course as well as its artistic design.Acesso AbertoDançaCurso técnicoProfissionalizaçãomasterThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::ARTES: ENSINO DE ARTES