The dance that moves Joyce Barbosa:

a profile narrative written in literary journalism

Abstract

There are several ways to record the history of dance. In this re-search, journalistic bias was chosen (first training of the authors), us-ing literary journalism techniques as a form of research and writing. This work is a fragment of a journalistic productmade as research, by the master's student Samara, in the Professional Master's Degree in Journalism at UFPB under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Gloria Rabay. Having as a cutout the action of women with/in dance and who build an authorial bias. With in-depth interviews, conducted via video calls due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the dialogue with the profiled was transformed into a profile narrative. For that, I had the theoretical sup-port of researchers Edvaldo Pereira Lima (1995), Sergio Vilas-Boas (2007) and Mônica Martinez (2014). Also anchoring on these authors to write in the first person. Making this historical record through the profiles of the artists is what is included in the thought and proposal of micro history, being, from them, told the history of dance in Para-íba, especially João Pessoa.