Voices of the future - Underground Narratives and Latent Dramaturgies: Creation processes and racial dynamics with women from Brazilian and Cape Verdean communities.
Biographical narratives. Dramaturgy theatrical. Africana Womanism. Afrocentricity.
The register of the memories of a people, narrated in written or oral form by women
who, in telling their lived histories, reveal racial dynamics and constitute themselves as
a motto for creative processes in dramaturgies and staging. Focused on the experiences,
language, aesthetics, speeches and cultural elements of women in four communities,
two of african ascendence, Parque Florestal, in the municipality of Camaçari and
Quilombo do Dandá, in Simões Filho, both in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador; and
two african, Achada Grande Frente and Rabelados Espinho Branco, located on the
island of Santiago, Cape Verde, the research calls this knowledge as an epistemic
proposition in interaction with academically systematized knowledge. In this sense, it is
ideologically referenced in Pan-Africanism and has, as its epistemological basis,
Afrocentricity, in a dialogue with Afrikan Womanism for a racially centralized
understanding of the dynamics of these women, while engaging in philosophical,
anthropological, historical, literary, spiritual and thinking perspectives of black theater.
The journey reverberates in a practical way through oral interviews, as well as narrative
writing workshops that, in their methodological itinerary, experiences the “Corpo
Oráculo” (Oracle Body), a series of exercises guided by the African cosmovision, as a
way to access memories and ritualized production of autobiographical writings. In this
process, women's narratives encourage the creation of literary, visual and scenic works,
suggesting, in its course, the proposition of the Black Renaissance Dramaturgy, which,
motivated by the African Renaissance, seeks to contribute to the many possibilities of
thinking about Black Theatre.