THE DANCE OF CONTEMPORARY ANCESTORS: apparition, reenactment, reincarnation and disassembly. A repositioning of black memory through a decolonial reading in contemporary dance.
Exclusion; Black epistemicide; Diaspora; Institutional Racism; Whiteness; Blackness; Dance
This research deals with contemporary narratives of black and white artists to try to identify elements that build the racial structure in Brazil, founding elements of our Brazilian nation. I want to talk here with these artists, to think about the geographical and internal displacements to which they were forced by dance education institutions as producers and maintainers of structural racism. Therefore, institutions as a racist instrument, to the extent that it submits, subjugates these bodies, determines which ideas survive, which ideas must submerge or disappear, acting as a promoter of the black epistemicide of a state that exercises a necropolitics within an exclusionary system whose modus operandi dates back to colonization. This displacement here is perceived as a contemporary diaspora. The writing will be presented in Librettos (small books) with dialogues and hyperlinks, having as research methodology interviews and artistic residencies. My interest here is not to prove a hypothesis, but to shed light on this diversity of speeches, dismantling and reconfiguring a Brazilian racist tradition crystallized and secularized throughout our history.