Preta Sinhá Preto Sinhô: caminhos costurados de um olhar ancestral

Abstract

It is known that a patchwork shell is made of several different scraps, of different colors, different textures, and these fabrics still have stories that they passed through in different ways, at different times, stories that intersected, that made other stories and in a given moment, in a place, in a project, the needle and thread appeared, and we began to collect these scraps, and to believe that from those scraps a quilt with several paths would “emerge”. The sewing of this patchwork quilt took place slowly, slowly, basting from the “Aldeia Mangue” project, this thread came to sew the quilt little by little in different ways, forming several paths connecting present and past, until reaching “Preta Sinhá Preto Sinhô: Sewn Paths of an Ancestral Gaze”. The present study aims to expose the trajectory of creation of the choreographic process, “Preta Sinhá, Preto Sinhô”, revealing ways to understand and investigate how the black dancing body connects, searches and awakens to identity and ancestral relationships of African origin. “Preta Sinhá, Preto Sinhô” deals with ancestries and identities in the processes of creation in dance. from a counter-colonial perspective, stimulated by self-identification and political and social recognition of what it means to be black, based on the body experienced socially, culturally, historically and artistically. in experiences lived with Afro-diasporic dances, inherited from ancestral African culture. This is research on/in movement with an identity and singular character that makes it possible to revisit collective practices of cultural production, based on the self-knowledge proposed in the shape of the choreographic process. The work stands in defense of Afro-diasporic arts, as a political and pedagogical strategy, regarding identity and ancestry. The methodology used is guided by the studies of writing by Evaristo (2020), where the concept of writing corroborates writing, where I place myself in the condition of narrator and experience of my own life story, built from ancestral family memories; in addition to observing how these studies were carried out based on the methodology proposed by Bianca Bazzo Rodrigues (2016).