A teatralidade na dança em Belo Horizonte: Trans-Forma Grupo Experimental de Dança e Baleteatro Minas

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the development of scenic dance in Belo Horizonte from the groups Trans-Forma Grupo Experimental de Dança and Baleteatro Minas. Both performed between the 1970s and 1980s and presented integration with theater in their performances. Trans-Forma Experimental Dance Group was created in 1971 and developed an initially modern proposal for the context of dance at the time. The Baleteatro Minas was founded in 1973, based on classical technique and presented integration with theater in the work developed by Dulce Beltrão. In the analysis of theatricality in dance, find resonances in the work developed by Febvre (1995). The research was methodologically guided by a qualitative approach and uses as procedures the research of references, interviews with artists who were part of the cast of the shows and documentary analysis, through show programs, photographs, reviews published in newspapers and magazines of the time and collections made available by the artists. The selection of reference shows used for analysis – Ground glass, Nelson's heart, from Trans-Forma Experimental Dance Group, and Elis, like a bird on her shoulder, from Baleteatro Minas – considered the period of consolidation of the artistic proposal of the groups, making it possible to understand a construction of what can be treated as a tradition of scenic dance in Belo Horizonte.