CORPALAVADEIRA: A POETICS OF THE HEART
Amazon; Performance; Body; Public Policies and Corpalavadeira
"Corpalavadeira: Uma poética do coração" is a doctoral poetics developed with the Graduate Program in Performing Arts of the Federal University of Bahia-PPGAC/UFBA, in the line of research Corporeities and interfaces: Somatics, Performativity and Digital Arts. Her investigative body is centered on the "Ritual of Laundresses" and her life stories connected to the life and art path of the Amazonian researcher. It is through this cultural repertoire of the Paraense Amazon that the whole process of constitution of the performer-actress as a living geography is bathed, implicated. For all this, the work travels a trajectory beyond "research subject" having the image-force of the washerwoman, not only as a category of study, but as the genesis of the creation of other subjectivations investigated and expressed by the INcorpoRe Group. Performing along the floor of the streets of the outskirts of Icoaraci/PA has been consolidated since the beginning of the research as a singular and current poetic identity, in order to guarantee, in fact and in law, cultural interventions in the daily life of the city. The corpalavadeira forms its web of meanings as a plan of resistance, not only for the district of Icoaraci, but rather, in the dialogue between - citizenship and forestry - as an insurgent public poetics that inhibits, breaks, attacks patterns and behaviors that imposes rules and norms for the body. I was inspired by iconography as a methodology (Jung, 2008) and to establish theoretical relations of analysis I used concepts of Geertz (1997), Schechner (2003), Freire (1987), Boal (1997) and Santos (2020), seeking to raise elements that help the treatment of the data obtained. In this way, I approach the bias of practice as research (Fernandes, 2012). As methodological procedures I adopted interviews, conversation circles, subdivided into 'body-prose', 'body-alumia' and 'body-memory', in addition to listing the 'butuca' and 'photographs' as an instrument for data collection.