Corp(O)ralidade no dançar afro e seus impactos para a população negra: desafios e lutos de um pesquisador na pandemia

Abstract

This research originates from the experience in the afro dance workshop of COART at UERJ, from March to December 2019, and in the online dance classes of dancer Eliete Miranda, from April 2020 to June 2021. In the search for knowledge historical, cultural and ancestral of the black people, we follow (and live) in the research how the afro dance and its present orality creates the re-signification of blackness, being a powerful way of knowledge and empowerment of the black population. We walk with the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a theoretical-methodological framework, allowing us to practice Maricia Moraes' researchCOM, where the psychologist, as a researcher, allows himself to be affected by the field, without objectifying it or placing himself as the sole holder of knowledge, with the understanding of Escrevivência proposed by Conceição Evaristo and with the Ubuntu philosophy. We have three concepts that underlie our proposition: Remembering, Remembering and Corp(O)oralidade. Remembering is linked to the body, dancing as a potent place of reintegration of dismembered bodies. From remembering blackness as a group, we can reflect together with the Ubuntu philosophy the idea of Remembering. Rememorar points to our ancestry, makes us go through our life stories in the search to connect to the past in re-signifying the present. Corp(O)oralidade emerges as dialogues of the body and the practice of orality, as a way of building possible bodies within the scenario of the pandemic and remote dance. During the course, the work brings the mourning, losses and crossings generated by Covid-19 in the research, since it was designed exclusively in person and needed adaptations and reconfigurations to happen in this reality of social isolation. This work is in progress and aims to open ways to dialogue and reflect on blackness. With this research, we can follow how Corp(O)oralidade can be absorbed as a clinical instrument in the proposal of an Afro-centered clinic for the black population.