Vadiagens pelas bandas de Nova Lima: perspectivas negras para uma prática cênica autoral

Abstract

In the search for black perspectives for scenic practice, in this research vagrancy was a creative principle for the development of an authorial theatrical creation in urban space. Understood as a social mask forged by elites to criminalize and marginalize the black population, their ways of life and cultural expressions, vagrancy, as a counter-mask, represented resistance against colonial exploitation and space-time outside the domain of compulsory work, allowing the meeting and collective identification among vagrants and the preservation and transmission of black cultural heritages, expressed in the games, festivities and bodily performances of this population. From a historical overview of the category and the analysis of cultural expressions considered vagrancy, we will address how vagrancy was assumed as a creative principle for the creation of the urban intervention “DAQUI – Teatro de Lucas Fabrício”, developed from August to December 2021 in the streets of Nova Lima – Minas Gerais and based on stories from the city. Composed of biographical and historical narratives about the territory, sound interventions and installation of lambe-lambes, DAQUI spent time occupying the street and part of the structure of the author's house under construction, promoting displacements of elements between the domains of the house and the city, the intimate and public and, thus, articulating discussions about black theatrical creation, territory and vagrancy.