Improvisations with archive-objects

we dance armengue & wear ancestral parangoles

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58786/rbed.2022.v2.n2.55370

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danças negras, armengue, parangolé, improvisação com objetos, anticolonial, intercorporeidade.

Abstract

In this article, the notion of improvisation in dance is approached from creative processes based on Afro-Brazilian cosmogonies. We call our experiences Armengue Dance. They are anti-choreographic and counter-dramaturgical scenic creations that make use ofobjects (ar-chive-objects) in their body compositions. These creations were made during workshops and classes that made use of elingaprinci-ples, developed initially in a postdoctoral dance internship. Our aim is to dismantle the prejudiced view, presented in Brazilian dictionaries, for the notion given about an improvised action from the term armen-gueand to discuss a dance with objects from the point of view of street epistemologies. In this sense, the concept of improvisation-ar-mengueis considered, in our studies, as a creative and anti-colonial weapon of the Brazilian people.

Author Biography

Laudemir Pereira Santos, Federal University of Bahia

Artista da cena, Professor/pesquisador, Macumbeiro e Capoeirista. Fez Pós-doutorado em Dança no PPGDANÇA/UFBA. Doutor e Mestre em Teatro com titulação na UDESC. Ministrou aulas em Escolas de Teatro, Circo e Dança no Brasil, Barcelona, Paris e Amsterdam. É um dos coautores do livro Gramáticas das Corporeidades Afrodiaspóricas: perspectivas etnográficas, lançado em 2020, Orgs. Julio Tavares.  Autor de vários artigos, livros e audiovisuais que tem como tema: Corporalidades Afro-brasileiras, Danças Negras, Contra colonialidade e Contra dramaturgia. Professor convidado e cofundador do componente Dança e Africanidades: perspectivas educacionais, poéticas e políticas (Doutorado-PPGDANÇA-UFBA). Dirigiu e atuou em experiências cênicas (performativas e audiovisuais) no Brasil e na Europa. Atua como Pesquisador-Associado nos seguintes grupos de pesquisa: Laboratório de Etnografia e Estudos em Comunicação, Cultura e Cognição (LEECCC), no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da UFF, no Grupo de Pesquisa em Dança GIRA, no PPGDANÇA/UFBA e no grupo REDE AFRICANIDADES na FACED/UFBA.

 

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2022-12-30 — Updated on 2023-11-30

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PEREIRA SANTOS, Laudemir. Improvisations with archive-objects: we dance armengue & wear ancestral parangoles. Brazilian Journal of Dance Research, [S. l.], v. 1, n. 2, p. 176–199, 2023. DOI: 10.58786/rbed.2022.v2.n2.55370. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rbed/article/view/55370. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022): Pesquisas em Dança: fluxo contínuo

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