O corpo-lira: etnografia das técnicas corporais em escola de circo

Abstract

In this research I will present, through ethnographies and theoretical references, the construction of the body of the circus artist. This rich and diverse field opens up possibilities for thinking about the body as a category that expresses the social markers of difference, which is articulated to narrate stories, which articulate social categories present in the world in which the circus is inserted. Thus, I explore the ethnographic field in circus schools allied by theoretical lenses, mainly Bourdieu (1983), Ingold (2010) and Csordas (2008) – and also other authors – that allow me to look not only at the body, but at the symbolic capitals, acquired skills and corporeality. Therefore, in this research I talk about symbolic borders, habitus, body hexis, symbolic and cultural capital and I discover a language of its own that the circus has, that the body also acquires. I conclude that the circus has its own way in which differentiations and classifications are created within the circus field itself.