Tornar-se negra: as danças afro no processo de autoidentificação e empoderamento étnico de uma professorartista.

Abstract

The study presents the investigation of my masters dissertation for the post-graduation program in Visual Arts of the Federal University of Pelotas, in wich I'm inserted in the Line Education in Arts and Processes of Aesthetic Formation. As a black female, balerina, teacher and researcher of Afro Dances and, above all, of the questions that engender in its doing, I seek from the living experiences that are allowed to me, between practices and my life experience, dancing and teaching, to articulate and problematize different crossings in those perspectives. Thus, the main objective is in reflecting about the articulation between the experiences with Afro Dances and my process of self-identification and black ethnic empowerment. It's from autoethnography (FORTIN, 2006), that I become decisive part of the study, that is, subject, bringing experiences and livings, personal and professional, to discuss concepts such as: Afro Dances, Identity, Education. Searching in references of the Afro Dances, afro-brazilian culture, education and etc., the theoretical basis for the study, from the readings of authors SILVA (2013), GOMES (2002, 2003, 2009), SABINO & LODY (2012), BRANDÃO (1981), amongst others. I defend the Afro Dances as possibility to enlarge and fortify the knowledges in afro-brazilian history and culture, from its practice and through those dances. Being this study an investigation of itself, a self-reflection, there are no "final results". However, provisonal and partial considerations, wich reinforce the potence of those practices for the assumption of the black ethnic identity and the formation of the teacher-artist, what instigates me to study and deepen my knowledges, leading me into believing in this doing as an empowering and potentiating practice, giving voice and visibility to the black culture, whether in artistics doing or in teaching.