Performance: o desenrolar do drama em um grupo de Capoeira Angola

Abstract

This work is a study of case which object consists of a group of capoeira angola that was passing through a transition moment. From the disruption between the two principal leaders of the group that was without master, there was the investigation of the present tensions revealing different points of view about capoeira and the way the group should act through its relationship nets. These differences are meaningful once they are related to the changes around the conceptions about this activity and they are also inserted on the context of transformations in progress at the Rio de Janeiro's city. Conceiving capoeira angola as a life style, the many ways of thinking about it also generate various forms of acting at the society. The methodology is the qualitative research with participant observation. The performance appproach was chose for the belief that values are communicated also by the differences among the movimention. At the final stage of the research, it was concluded that the investigated group was passing through a transition moment, which was considered as a passage, accordingly to Victor Turner s studies, already going to the next phase from the indication of the responsible treinel to join a established group.