Por uma pedagogia dos corpos negros: o Grupo Terracotta e o projeto dançando a nossa cor no contexto da arte-educação em Uberlândia

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation is located in the practical, epistemological and conceptual field of the interrelationships of art and education with a view to highlighting contemporary perspectives for educational practice. It presents as object of investigation part of the artistic production of the TerraCotta DançaA AfroContemporânea Group (2008 - 2014) with broad emphasis to the project Dançando a Nossa Cor, highlighting the actions arising from the 3rd season- 2013. Through the investigation of physical documents, sound files and photographic collection of the group and the Municipal Secretariat of Culture were sought subsidies for the analysis presented about black cultural production and part of its training and identity processes, endorsing the cultural context of the city of Uberlândia in the 1990s, 2000 and 2010. Resources of oral history and instruments of analysis of multimedia material also make up the methodological processes that, in addition to addressing the arguments and objects of research, address the issue of imputed violence, black bodies especially in the dimensions: physical, symbolic, affective, psychological and social. The work carried out in public schools, through artistic presentations, courses and lectures, aimed to contribute to the training of teachers in dealing with black culture in the face of processes of subjective and institutional racial discrimination, as well as establishing ways for discussion and discussion the roles for implementation of Federal Law 10.639 / 03 process which includes black people history and culture as a mandatory part of the brazilian educational system, for instance amended the Law on Guidelines and Bases (LDB - 9.394 / 1996) establishes the guidelines and bases of national education, to include in the official curriculum of the education system, the obligation of "Afro-Brazilian History and Culture " subject. The theoretical dialogues present part of the decolonial studies from the perspective of southern epistemologies and the implications of the concept of otherness, blackness and ethnicity related to the Afro-Brazilian and Latin American black bodies, especially presenting the concept of 'blackened bodies'. The analyzes established in the artistic and educational fields articulated the nature of the popular black culture that is (re) built by musicality, dance and iconography in the path of reterritorialization of black bodies in the context of school and scene. As a result (in process) the thesis text, as a consequence of the continuos efforts, suggests reflections that may contribute to confronting the processes of racism, discrimination and black epistemicide with a view to recognizing the relevance of black knowledge in the context of contemporary art and education.