Dançando com demônios: cartas aos colonizados e colonizadores corpos dançantes brasileiros

Abstract

This work examines ways of perceiving times and bodies violated by colonization – synonymous with possession - of this territory to be called Brazil. From the perspective of Pero Vaz de Caminha's Carta de Achamento, it unfolds the demonization of Brazilian bodies as a procedural process, and is permanent in today's dancing bodies. It externalizes the problem: Would the concept of Demonizing Inversion be distinguishable in Pero Vaz de Caminha's Letter to investigate colonizing images of time and bodies rooted in contemporary Brazilian dancers? Firstly, the colonization of spiral time (MARTINS, 2021) by the chronological time axiom for the "past that does not pass", which would culminate in the Brazilian proposition of colonized and colonizer. Secondly, the colonization of the body by the image (MACHADO, 2012), body † cross and its demonizing inversion (CLARK, 2006). In the following bibliographical review, using a post-positivist research method (FERNANDES, 2013), we will explore the relational possibilities of possession, either by agreeing (BENTO, 2022) with its violent system, or by dialoguing with the demons engendered, for a reflexive unraveling of the bodies that dance, by conjecturing them as time (CARDOSO, 2013), by making-saying (SETENTA, 2008) of themselves, in recognition of their Brazilian historicity.