Filmedança XequeMate: um memorial artístico

Abstract

This Course Completion Work consists of a reflective account on the creation of the dance film XequeMate, developed by me in the Bachelor of Dance program at the Federal University of Uberlândia - MG, where I was supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexandre José Molina in the Supervised Internship of Body/Performance Workshop, and by Carolina Minozzi in the Body Practices component. Its objective is to show how my experiences with racismo, understood as a system of discrimination based on race, which manifests in visible or invisible practices and generates inequalities were transformed into material for artistic creation, especially in XequeMate. These experiences motivated a dialogue with dance and Black dramaturgy, understood as a bodily construction in relation to ancestry. In this context, artistic practice functions as an instrument of denunciation, articulating the political, in resisting racism; the social, in sharing the experiences of the Black community; and the aesthetic, in audiovisual creation, in an art-life relationship, in which both manifest together and cannot be separated, showing how my awakening to Blackness characterized by the process of awareness and affirmation of Black identity in the face of whitening strategies is reflected in the art I produce.