Sambografia cabocla: um pensamento em dança a partir do samba de caboclo

Abstract

The "samba de caboclo" is a celebration present in African-based religions. In this festivity, the memory of ancestral owners of the land is celebrated, entities recognized by the name of Caboclos. This research turns its eyes to the aesthetics, philosophy, image, symbologies and gestures of the Marujos (entities related to the sea), aboclos de Pena (entities related to the forests) and Caboclos de Couro (entities related to the brazilian outback) for the construction of poetic arts. Based on the thoughts and concepts of world-sense (OYĚWÙMÍ, 1997), esthesia (SODRÉ, 2016), memory afrographies (MARTINS, 1997) and poetics of the orixás (SILVA, 2016), I elaborate a set of thoughts derived from the practices present in the corporeality of the Samba de Caboclo. I relate images, gestures, philosophies and movement, calling this way of understanding everything as Sambografia Cabocla. This thought has as one of its objectives the expansion of infinite bodily possibilities for dance creations, adding to so many other methodologies, techniques, pedagogies and dance teachings, affirming the plurality and diversity in the field, based on Samba. Recognizing an authorial, identitary, ancestral Samba that starts from crossroads and bodily memories, I hope to be contributing to the production in the area of dance knowledge. And, thus, enabling artistic strategies and practices through the aesthetics of Samba de Caboclo, guided by the imagetic of the elements earth, fire, water and air, developing a connection of deep re(connection) of the body. Through the methodology of a practical experience with Samba de Caboclo classes and field research, I perform two choreographic processes, Pé no Chão?! (2011, 2018) and Passe (2017), which I bring in this work to understand the proposed thought, its organization and experiments, in order to contribute to advances in the field of dance research, as well as to expand and reflect about the presence of dances of African matrices, originating from the Bantu people, specifically the Samba family, in the repertoire of artistic and educational compositions