Saberes do corpo: capoeira, cultura corporal e educação

Abstract

Capoeira is defense, attack, swing the body, trickery, action and reaction. It is a game of chess, according to some capoeira players. For some people it is a sport, for others it is a kind of dance, fight, philosophy of life. But there are still those people who see it as a show of acrobatic skills bodily propagated in movies, shows, video games, tourist events that just created certain body stereotypes of beauty and physical performance. In this sense, the research aimed to describe, analyze and interpret the physical culture, as well as the perception of capoeira players in relation to the body in capoeira, and their foremen and students, located in different capoeira groups situated in different institutions, such as Blocks of Carnival, Sports Clubs, and Fitness centers. It starts with the understanding of physical culture as an expression of a culture historically constructed, accumulated, with a new meaning and expressed by body movements that highlight hallmarks of a particular group in a specified locality, in this case, the different groups of capoeira and their respective institutions. What is the perception of capoeira players in relation to their own body, their colleagues body, foreman s and students bodies? What do capoeira players expect to learn in capoeira? And for those capoeira players and their foremen and students, what is the main objective of teaching or learning capoeira? Would it be something like a technical aspect that aims at prioritizing the development and improvement of technical movements, flourishes, elusive? Or also, allied to these aspects, would it be important, for the capoeira players, know the history of capoeira, as it came over time to new meaning and resisting to be recognized today as "a truly national sport"? Would there be those who practice capoeira simply to maintain a standard body aesthetic propagated by the media and the fashion industry? From the observations, reflections and interpretations of the interviews we come to the conclusion that in fact the institutions in which groups perform their practices may influence the philosophy of teaching / learning of these. And the perceptions and interests of capoeira players in relation to the body vary in the search for better technical performance, aesthetic standard and historical knowledge of capoeira, its movements, punches, dodges and how they come with their new meaning over time