Juntó dançando sankof : escrevivência na dança africana-brasileira.

Abstract

This research presents an afro-referenced perspective and its catalytic effects in performing arts. It is developed in the Postgraduate Program in Dance at UFBA, and it is founded on the premises of Ancestry, the Sankofa adinkra, the cosmoperception that encompasses the whole being, and Candomblé. All these premises are centralized on and has as its starting point the black body, a body that is also candomblecist, peripheral to the margins of society, and grown up on the countryside. It is urgent that performance be guided by the very doings, inspirations and theoretical-practical basis of being a black person. The employed methodologies are “Escrevivência” (“self-writing”) along with autoethnography applied to dance, bringing materials from the researcher practice, in dialogue with the theoretical basis; practice together with writing, therefore: the Juntó. The purpose of this knot is to untie ancestral Afro-diasporic paths in performing arts. The writing also comes from self-writing, based on epistemes that roots African philosophies. It describes also meetings on the theme of Ancestry, which nurture the Nagôs Dialogues that are part of this work. The practice attached to the theory is inspired by the movements of the Òrìṣà, with the aim of paying homage, therefore, the terminology dance for the Òrìṣà is used. The practice movements also rely on Sankofa's past-present-future and how it culminates in the body. The (in)finite considerations point to a path that this research intends to continue, but which for the time being rooted in black knowledge needed to exist. So, you are: Juntó Dancing Sankofa: Self-writing in the Ancestral Dance. I choose to categorize the dissertation as component parts of the ancestral tree: The Baobab, resulting in: Seed, Roots, Trunk, Branches and Fruits Loaded with Seeds.