Coreografias juvenis: gêneros e sexualidades na cena escolar

Abstract

This study aimed at understanding the meanings and senses given by students to the relationships of gender and sexuality that intertwine the practice of dance in school. In order to give prominence to the experience of the adolescents, thus enabling the emergence of their reflections and the production of meaning, the research makes use of Cartography as a strategy for following the events, experiences and transformations in the field of research. The research object of this study were the activities of a Dance Group in a private school in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte, in which the researcher is also a teacher. The approaches on gender and sexuality that constituted the theoretical framework of this study are based on a post-structuralist perspective that considers the historical, unstable and continuous character of these social markers. The reflexive movements of the students are presented here in three chapters, elaborated as choreographies that explore different planes, spaces, times and efforts. The Choreography of Performativity explores the ways in which pedagogical practice and student relationships act in the production of masculinities and femininities, presenting the diversity and complexity of these productions and their conflicts, revealing both what generates violence or domination and what liberates or strengthens the subjects. Choreography of Surveillance reveals how the negotiation movements of dancing boys can produce the ambiguous effects of flexibilizing gender boundaries and promoting specific homophobia, keeping non-heterosexual experiences in the field of abjection. Finally, there is the Choreography of the Act, through which the students bring to the stage the practices experienced in the group, which seem to support their reflections, as well as to suggest interventions for addressing gender and sexuality issues in a plurality of classes, revealing the movements from the act of learning and teaching. In summary, the three choreographies offer readers the possibility of grasping how complex, diverse and instigating the production of meanings and senses on the subject of gender and sexuality is for these young people and how school actors can become more sensitive to the movements that occur and that are developed in the various relationships that take place within the institution of the school.