Rachando o petit-pavé: danças afro-orientadas e territórios da diáspora negra em Curitiba

Abstract

This work proposes a reflection on the historical, cultural and political importance of knowledge production spaces in Afro-diasporic dances in the city of Curitiba. Experiences that span my life course and teach about cultivating deep relationships with the lands we inhabit. Crossing autobiography, dialogues with people linked to the construction of part of these spaces, as well as historiographical productions about the city, I critically assess the formative and transforming power of these actions in time. The trajectory and legacy of the artist and activist from Paraná Vera Paixão, creator of the ―Black Beauty Contest‖ as well as the ―Afro Cultural Group Ka-Naombo‖, both produced within the CANPA – Cultural Association of Negritude and Popular Action, founded in the 90s in Curitiba, it is one of the stories involved in this plot and as a common thread, it connected us to active groups from the 80's to the present day. Knowing and recording the trajectories of different generations of Afro-oriented dances (SILVA, 2018) in the contexts of Curitiba, documenting this process with the Graduate Program in Dance at the Federal University of Bahia, in this work, actions undertaken as a movement of land repossession. Body, space and knowledge are dimensions through which writing stands and together they sustain the concept of territory-body proposed as a key in the work.