Batom: experiências entre performance e feminismo preto

Abstract

This research is an experience report on the creation of the performance Batom, a work developed in the Dance Course of UFU. Its main objective is to present how the issues experienced by me in relation to racism, gender, sexism and fatphobia are social marks that, crossed in my life experience and in my body, are placed as materials for the production of an artistic work that articulates the political and aesthetic positioning in an art and life relationship, body and politics. For the development of this Course Completion Work, I tried to analyze how the creative process took place from three directions: the first, having as a starting point my life experiences as a black woman, has the interest of understanding the reasons that led to the production of the performance; the second relates to the understanding of black feminism and the themes correlated, such as gender identity, intersectionality, racism, place of speech, among others; the third concerns the understanding of performance as a field of artistic action that allows the deepening of the themes addressed here in an aesthetic, poetic and political way. I understand that this work may contribute to future research of black women, dance artists, who have an interest both in the field of performance and in the themes related to the issues of black feminism, whether in the academic, artistic or social field. It is expected that the experience reported here can be a parameter about the creative relationship of performance articulated to racial and gender issues, especially those mediated by academic research.