BLACK WOMEN IN BRAZILIAN DANCE AND THEIR IMAGES
(Invisibilities – Hypervisibilities)
Dance, black women, invisibilities, hypervisibilities
Claiming the visibility of black women in Brazilian contemporary dance is the main interest of this writing. I try to understand how we are seen in this field and how we perceive ourselves, and where the marks of racism are present and constitute a need for liberation that can transform racist relations in artistic spaces. For that, I start from the re-elaboration of my existence from memories and lived and/or created imaginations that, connected with the existences of black women who seek to break with artistic coloniality, and specifically in the field of dance, and forge other modes/worlds to be visible in the dances. It is therefore necessary to claim the humanity of black people in the Brazilian diaspora and also to show that if we are in this empty space that presents itself between invisibility and hypervisibility, it is because the field of dance in all its diversity is still rooted in racism. . Authors such as Assante (2014). Ani (1994). Mbembe (2018). Fanon(2008). Silva (2019). Arrutia (2001). Hurston (2021). Lord (2019). Morrison (2019) and others help me build these propositions.