| dc.description.abstract | Desires and necessities guide this work. The desire to dance also with words and the need to
highlight and problematize blackness in the academic space. The text is thought, danced and
written through the artistic knowledge of Dance in dialogue with the anthropological,
sociological and political studies of the Social Sciences. The main objective of this study is to
understand the identity processes of black inviduals in undergraduate Dance courses at UFSM
between 2013 and 2018. Therefore, through an methodological (self)ethnographic approach, I
build criticism and tensioning about how this process echoes in the life of other black
individuals, given that the notion of blackness defines and redefines itself through the length
of the formative trajectory as a whole. The structure of this writing is organized in three
chapters, through which I peruse since my personal, formative and artistic trajectory, to the
discussions about identity, blackness, affirmative actions and education, especially in higher
education. In this writing, I describe the construction of the research universe, experiences in
the fieldwork and the trajectory of interlocutors who, linked to the theoretical debate, support
the research. As a result, I found that the dance formation of identity processes stood out from
the Dancer-Researcher-Interpreter Method and the Somatic Approaches of Movement. At the
same time, these processes occur beyond graduation, involving family socialization,
integration, behavior, and issues related to black collectives. Finally, on the different
conceptions of being black and manifesting blackness, the empirical data pointed out that they
are not limited as phenotypic issues, but a part of the experiences lived in the trajectory of
each of the interlocutors. | |
