OUR BODY ECHOED: THE BODY-TERRITORY OF YOUNG BLACK QUILOMBOLAS
Body-Territory; Dance; Youth; Social Psychology; Quilombola community
The present study is based on participatory research, which will use intervention research as a theoretical and methodological basis, with the aim of analyzing how the collective corporeality of a dance group implies the production of the territory-body among young black quilombolas from the sertão Alagoas. The Quilombola community Cajá dos Negros, the research immersion field, is located in the hinterland of Alagoas, municipality of the city of Batalha. The research participants are eight young participants from the Dandara dance group, who are between 12 and 20 years old. The research will seek to be developed in five stages. In the first stage, a bibliographic survey and systematic review of theses, books and articles that discuss the expression of the territorial-body in Afro-Brazilian dances and their historical, aesthetic and political fabrics will be carried out. The second stage will consist of the presentation of the research-intervention project to the dance group and community leadership. In the third stage, interventions will be carried out with the dance group, using as instruments collaborative encounters, choreographic rehearsals, participant observation and field diaries, understanding this phase as a process in which one seeks to know to transform, into a link between dialogue, reflection and incite actions. The fourth step will aim to analyze scenes, events, dialogues produced during the interventions, the method of analysis will be carried out through decolonial theoretical contributions that have the look turned to the body-territory. The fifth and final stage will consist of presenting the research results to the community and the dance group.