Entre o liso e o estriado: percursos dos jovens dançarinos urbanos do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This study is based on the idea that the urban dances begin as one of the ways to become a man and a professional in modern times. That being said, the main objective of this work is to present how this process happens in Rio de Janeiro city by studying the urban dancers. This objective is split in three: describe the tactics used by the dancers to organize their dance in the city; describe their way of telling their story and life perspectives; analyze how they refactor the original hip hop street dance. Each of these is presented in an article: From the street fighting to the stage battles: the rise of street dancing in Rio de Janeiro , Journey s rhetoric: young urban dancers stories in Rio de Janeiro city and The passinho dance: a dance born in Rio . We based ourselves in Vianna (1997) and Herschmann (2000) in order to understand this diffuse and disperse process as a function of its presence in Rio s funk culture. The liso e estriado metaphor was used as a tool to make us think about these young dancers life. We also seek to establish a dialog between our ideas and Certeau s (2008). In the end, we present some ideas based on our research and field work.