AFRO BRAZILIAN DANCE: STORIES OF DANCES AND ETHNOGRAPHIC NARRATIVES - IN SEARCH OF AN IDENTITY FOR AFRO ALAGOAS DANCE
Alagoas dance; Black dance; Dance of the Orixás; AfroAlagoas identity;
This research seeks to identify and understand how Afro-Brazilian dance was constituted in Alagoas from 1980 to the present day. The background is the pioneering of the non-Alagoas choreographer Eduardo Xavier dos Passos, then the performance of the Alagoas choreographer José Petrúcio Trindade and the creation of the first Afro dance group from Alagoas, the Ekodidé Afro Brazilian Dance Group, which was based on the Orixás dance performed in the alagoas candomblés terreiros. The ethnography of this research takes place from the bibliographic survey, interviews, document analysis, participant observation and field research itself. The stories and narratives that compose this research provide reflection on the importance and appreciation of choreographers as professionals and the main narrators, builders and authors of the ethnographic doing on Afro-Alagoas dance.