Pedreira! Por uma poética negra do corpo motriz nas artes da cena

Abstract

Through a first-person, memorial, and performative writing, this thesis seeks to reflect on black scenic poetics in the languages of theater and dance. To do so, I construct a research and creation journey entitled "Pedreira!", which initially encompasses the discussion of historiographical perspectives on black presence and absence in the scene, drawing upon my artistic upbringing in the state of Pernambuco. Subsequently, I delve into concepts pertinent to this journey, such as artethnography (Lyra, 2011), through which I undertake an investigation into archives, documents, and notebooks from the Visível Núcleo de Criação – PE/SP and the Capulanas Cia de Arte Negra – SP; collectives with which I have experienced authorial processes of scenic construction. I also discuss the concept of the "motriz body" (Lourenço, 2015), developed during my master's degree, based on the idea of cultural driving forces (Ligiéro, 2011), which I have been exploring as a methodological perspective for creation practices in the scene and for artist training. Another concept I highlight is that of urgent dramaturgies, identifying agendas/themes advocated in black poetics, unequivocally linked to a state of political militancy. Finally, in a third moment, I emphasize the authorial performance, homonymous to the research, titled "Pedreira!", which culminates in an entire trajectory where popular traditions, ancestry, memory, feminisms, blackness, and cultural identities are interwoven in defense of a political-epistemic thought in black art, based on the experience of its subjects