Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MARIA BEATRIZ FERREIRA VASCONCELOS

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STUDENT : MARIA BEATRIZ FERREIRA VASCONCELOS
DATE: 14/08/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Escola de Dança da UFBA/Remoto
TITLE:

Rizomatic Belly Dance: Intermezzo between transnacionality, orientalism and antropofagy

KEY WORDS:

Belly Dance. Rhizome Orientalism. Anthropophagy.

PAGES: 154
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Artes
SUBÁREA: Dança
SPECIALTY: Execução da Dança
SUMMARY:

The present work proposes the reflection of aspects that cross Belly Dance in a rhizomatic way, a philosophical concept brought by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the book Mil Platôs (2017). Just as the vegetative structure forms the image of a tangle of connected lines, this dance has been developing as a mode of representation whose composition, principles and scope are propagated ad infinitum, each with its own becoming. In view of all its multifaceted complexity, it is not possible to specify a specific genealogical point, since its tradition was transnationalized through peoples of the most diverse origins. In the same way, it is also not possible to reduce this practice to essentialist concepts of which Orientalism is the most emblematic spokesperson. Inaugurated by Palestinian literary critic Edward Said in his work Orientalism: The Orient as Invention of the West (2007), the term refers to a Western way of thinking whose field of study is based on a geographic, linguistic, cultural and ethnic unit called the East. By proposing the historical contextualization of Belly Dance from the perspective of Orientalism, the work will politicize the discussion of how this paradigm worked as a conceptual tool to imagine the other in an exotic and sexualized way, a conception that reached and shaped the very bowels of the Dance of the Belly. Womb as we know it (or imagine we know it) today. Paradoxically, orientalist objectifications continue to be an aspect that attracts great appeal to practitioners of the modality. In this sense, the work will problematize the rhizomatic way in which Belly Dance appropriated its orientalist bias, reconfiguring itself in a feminist and anthropophagic practice that continues to expand in multiple becomings, regarding the American Tribal Style of Belly Dance and the Tribal Fusion. Despite the proposals of these contemporary developments already announcing significant changes in the sense of combating the objectification and erasure of bodies outside the dominant norms, we will discuss how the national scene has sought alternatives in order to propose a greater decolonization of its practice. As Oswald de Andrade raises in his Manifesto (1928) the need for an anthropophagic vaccine as a strategy for an authentically national artistic production, we will point out possible paths for the construction of a Belly Dance that reflects in a rhizomatic way our own identity.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1914550 - CARMEN PATERNOSTRO SCHAFFNER
Interna - 3196617 - LUDMILA CECILINA MARTINEZ PIMENTEL
Interna - 1220052 - CIANE FERNANDES
Externo ao Programa - 2091873 - LEONARDO JOSE SEBIANE SERRANO - UFBAExterno à Instituição - ARNALDO LEITE DE ALVARENGA - UFMG