"Eu não bato boca, eu rodo saia e toco tambo!". O coco de roda do Qilombo Ipiranga

Abstract

This work has the Coco de Roda of the Quilombo do Ipiranga as its research object and seeks to unveil the labor gestures of the quilombolas as the first key to understanding and analyzing the manifestation of the Coco de Roda dance. Ancestry is the thread that weaves this historical research to understand the gestures and actions that make up the ethical and aesthetic movement of the dance in order to highlight and analyze the aspects and inferences of the relationship with the land in the manifestation of the Coco de Roda of the Quilombo do Ipiranga in its questions concerning the body. The research focuses on identity formation processes, which involves the contexts and memories of the cultural agents studied here. The methodological weaving adopts the spiral time, starting from the fields of dance and anthropology, anchored in the cartography method, in the complex method, aiming at a committed and sensitive research. The dialogical character with these fields of knowledge makes an approach to cultural ethics in dance possible. The focus on aesthetic and creative manifestation in conjunction with anthropological research aims at understanding the social and historical questions connected with cultural manifestations. This dance research extends into the educational field, analyzing the teaching-learning processes that occur in the manifestation of the Coco de Roda in the Quilombo do Ipiranga. From this perspective, it is believed that the manifestations of popular culture contribute to the preservation of the community's knowledge and skills.