As danças árabes e indianas como manifestação cultural no Amazonas

Abstract

Dance is an activity that offers the possibility of experimenting with different ways of using the body and its movement qualities to represent different choreographic ideas, opening up a range of creation. In this work, as an artistic manifestation, we focus on Arabic and Indian dances, as these have achieved, over the years, notoriety in the city of Manaus, when a large number of immigrants arrived in the north of Brazil, influenced by the economic, social and religious panorama. In this sense, this dissertation describes the unfoldings of Arabic and Indian ethnological dances and the social representations of the body from their choreographic compositions. Supported by Le Breton's concepts, 16 participants involved in this dance context are the protagonists of this study. To collect data, we used a focus group, visual method (video analysis and self-photography) in addition to an interview and individual questionnaire. The reliability of the data is based on the method of triangulation of findings. Three themes stand out in the categorization carried out by Bardin's analysis: 1. The role of the school as a mediator of subject-world transformations; 2. The teaching-learning processes in ethnological dances: from technique to the assimilation process; and 3. The surprise elements in the choreographies: surprising moments that were memorable in the ethnological dance scene. The universe of Arabic and Indian ethnological dances in Manaus goes far beyond the issue of love for dance, it involves the dancing context and how these bodies transculture themselves. This is the focus of this work.