Resumo:
This work proposes a reflection on Belly Dance with the perspective of the principles of the rhizome, a philosophical concept brought by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the book Mil Platôs (2017). In this sense, the objective is to present connection, heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, cartography and decalcomania as devices that clarify its composition, development, relevance and continuity. Such an approach is necessary to combat its arborescent implications and a mode of representation that reduces its inherent diversity. Deeply affected by the capitalist and colonial situation of Modernity, Belly Dance began to encompass a multiplicity of dances and identities in a generalizing way, surveyed by Eurocentric hegemonic paradigms. By analyzing the contiguity of these crossings, this argument justifies and encourages the promotion of new developments and becomings that give new meaning to their essentialisms. The methodology applied will consist of surveying, reviewing and critically reading the bibliographic reference table. As main theoretical frameworks, in addition to the rhizome of Deleuze and Guattari (2017), the concept of orientalism as developed by Edward W. Said (2007) will also be presented. Furthermore, primary sources from the 18th century will be referenced, such as the works of Carsten Niebuhr (1776 ), Claude-Étienne Savary (1787) and Edward William Lane (1836), in addition to works by Arab, Iranian, Armenian and Turkish authors, regarding Najwa Adra (1998), Arzu Öztürkmen (2003) and Rosina-Fawzia Al- Rawi (2012) With this research, we hope to demonstrate the unsustainability of chronopolitical fictions, orientalist discourses and narratives, as well as the epistemic fixity in linking centralizing and mythical origins to Belly Dance. Just as the rhizome is resilient to reifications and silencing, we propose its use as a political, epistemological, social and ethical tool that results in a Belly Dance that expands through deviation. We consider that it is in becoming, therefore, that it finds its permanence and insurgency.
