Geografia e dança: transcorporalidades dos caboclos: malhação de Judas Molekes de Mestre Bebé e Major Sales (RN)

Abstract

This research seeks to identify the embodiment of the dancing bodies of the Grupo de Caboclos – Malhação de Judas Molekes de Mestre Bebé, from Major Sales-RN. In the research, we assume that the constest of the Caboclos de Major Sales, which happens in the city of Major Sales since 1990, is a milestone in the notions of “Body-space,” in the “space-body,” and in the “body as space” of the performers of the “Dance of the Caboclos”. Therefore, it reflects on how the dancing bodies modified and were modified by the geographical space, in a natural movement of interrelations and influences that allowed the continuity of this traditional expression through the creation of new traditions, senses, symbols and socio-spatial relations. This research is associated with the Volunteer Research Program, through the research project “Pontos de Contato”, from the Escola de Belas Artes/UFMG. This project aims to create a research/action and dance practices group, that through discussions and dance practices based on the principles of Dance Ethnology and Cultural Studies.