Festas, frestas e atravessamentos – processos educativos, corpo, memórias e encantamento nas danças brasileiras

Abstract

I believe that science and knowledge must be used to fight oppressions, assimilations, epistemicides, interdictions and the sufferings lived by men and women who want to exist with their diversities. We propose a conception of education as wind, considering the popular manifestations that displaces epistemic centralities rooted in the colonial bases of racism. Therefore, this education humanizes, liberates and recreates existences and possibilities. Brazilian dances such as Congada, Capoeira, Coco and Caruriá, invite us to live education as enchantment and challenge. This study aimed to understand how the educational processes within these popular manifestations occur. It was based on my experiences in scholar spaces and in the dance group Balaio de Chita. I observed how this group’s interventions contribute to enable the implementation of Law 10.639/03 (Brasil, 2003). This is qualitative research: as a methodological path, we chose the systematization of experiences, which allows the sharing of knowledge. Each stage of this methodological procedure is made up of elements that compose me as a Northeastern woman, a teacher and someone who lives the popular culture in a daily basis. The collections of experiences were recorded in pictures, music, touches, conversations and memories of a body in cross that, through the cracks, tries to recognize itself. In the analysis of the lived experiences, I was able to raise some directions: knowing, receiving and sharing the knowledge lived as an anti-racist struggle; understanding corporeality and belonging: the body as port, orality, memory and experiences as space and time of learning; connecting affection and school: building knowledge in conviviality; discovering secrets and mysteries of the visible and the invisible world, and perceiving the time to learn and to teach. Through the parties, the crevices, the songs, the ornaments, the choreographies, the different visions of the world that make up this pluriuniverse, the players reaffirm their identities, their belonging, demonstrate the pleasure, joy and satisfaction of their daily world, keeping alive their tradition