Memória, corpo e performances: a dança negra de Mercedes Baptista
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2016-04-20
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This study proposes reflections, analyzes and discussions for the female black body in
dance, having as a study the course and the performances of dancer Mercedes Baptista
(1921-2014). In order to get perceptions of this body, are emphasized choices, pathways,
spaces, Afro Brazilian Dance in Mercedes Baptista, events and people that have gone
through and marked her life story. From the reconstruction of its trajectory, it is possible
to think the problems that still demarcate this body. This reinterpretation grounded in
biographical work "Mercedes Baptista: the creation of black identity in dance" Paul
Melgaço (2007) are marked educational spaces and meeting that will contribute to the
formation of ballerina, considered this work as a rhizome. To broaden perspectives on
aspects that cut across its history, they are discussed concepts related to the memory,
forgetfulness and invisibility, in dialogue with the review and analysis of the content of
three books dealing with the history of dance in Brazil. At understanding the printed
demarcations that body, are discussed aspects that make up the social imaginarywith a
focus on one of the representations attributed to the female black body dance, present in
the trajectory of Mercedes Baptista, the personification of "mulatto". In this context of
thinking training, the female black body and its representations, is taken up the "body
afrodiaspórico" while confrontation way these symbolic impositions. For better
understanding the variances of which this body created and recreated, although the
omissions and representations, through the lens of Cultural Performances are discussed
the notion of the body as "liminal body" being considered the documentary "standing Ballet
on the ground" of Marianna Monteiro and Lily Solá (2005). This work aims at weaving a
dance writing, that emphasis an important aspects, that is expected to contribute to the
reflections on the formation of the female black body dance nowadays.
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Mercedes Baptista , Memória , Corpo , Performances culturais , Formação , Dança , Mercedes Baptista , Memory , Body , Cultural performances , Formation , Dance
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PEREIRA, D. G. Memória, corpo e performances: a dança negra de Mercedes Baptista. 2016. 189 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Performances Culturais) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.