Estratégias de criação cênica feminina negra caririense : uma análise das obras “porElas” e “ Para acabar com o ciclo de mula”

Abstract

This dissertation investigates scenic creation strategies developed by a black Northeastern Brazilian artist, grounded in personal experiences shaped by gender-based violence. The research focuses on the work porElas (2023), a production of the Research Group Ocupações Artísticas da Cidade (OAC), under my direction, and the performance Para acabar com o ciclo de mula (2021), by the artist Suzana Carneiro, reflecting on how performance can constitute a space of denunciation, healing, and alternative symbolic construction. Anchored in escrevivência (Conceição Evaristo, 2020) and in the perspective of spiraled time (Leda Maria Martins, 2021), the author articulates memory, territory, and body as dramaturgical axes. The work draws on Black feminist poetics in performance to imagine other forms of existence on stage and in life. The analyzed works establish dialogues with urban space, the collective, and ancestry, proposing art as a means of community mobilization and resistance to structures of silencing and oppression. The research also includes testimonies derived from interviews with the artists who created the investigated works. Thus, scenic creation is understood as a poetic-political gesture of resistance and invention, in which the body inscribes itself as testimony and as a possibility of reinvention.