Dança do salão à cena: uma análise sobre mercados e economias na prática profissional das danças de salão no Brasil contemporâneo

Abstract

This study is dedicated to understanding the possibilities of working and surviving dance, specifically the doings related to ballroom dances in its organization as a scenic product. For this, I give a brief summary of the historical trajectory of ballroom dancing to demonstrate how over time, this way of dancing has served the interests of socializing different social segments, but with predominance of the upper and middle classes of society, having as its guiding axis of its existence, sociability among people. However, from the second half of the 20th century, this form of dance began to offer a series of services and dance products to various social segments, among them, the dances and events. Because we understand specific ballroom dance events as the initial stage of pretending to do dance for artistic purposes, we will analyze such events to understand the motives and interests behind it. In addition, we will investigate new ways of doing and thinking ballroom dancing aimed at the scene, as well as the implications of this in their specific markets. The nature of the research is applied, the approach is qualitative, and the technical procedures used were case studies, with semi-structured interviews and bibliographic referential review.