Ancestral poetics of dance for a body in becoming woman

Abstract

Below we bring reverberations of a workshop held in the extension project entitled: hidden name, proposed by the Research Group, hidden name, formed by teachers linked to dance, performance, art and philosophy. This group, living in the context of a pandemic, decided to create a project that would activate Deleuzian and Guattarian concepts, which had been studied and experimented in the writing of theses and dissertations. Tired of the routine of textual analysis and epistemic and counter-epistemic debates; forced to live together as a group in a remote environment, this collective begins to perceive itself as absent from its own body. The covid-19 imposed distance, absence, made it impossible to live a common body. Bodies are intensities and multiplicities, perceptions of lived experience in movement. The pandemic-imposed losses, restrictions and the Brazilian government, in its delusions against life and science, imposed wavering plans on us, the body suffering, forgotten. Confined to study and write through networks, close to sad news, it was the scenario to activate an extension project that dared to create 5 workshops for the purpose of sensitizing an intensive body. In this article, we deal with the echoes and repercussions that the 2nd practical workshop made us live as a theme, when it brought the Sacred Circular Dances as a means of potentiating a female ancestry. Dialogue with the forms of interaction of women in contemporary times, emphasizing ritualistic practices and movements paced by predecessors that have subverted the annunciation of dancing corporeities outside the binary, patriarchal and heteronormative order.