Nos passos das danças afro-diaspóricas, corpamos valores ancentrais

Abstract

This Master's in Dance research was developed in the Professional Postgraduate Program in Dance, at the School of Dance of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). The action research was carried out with students in the initial years of Elementary School at Escola Municipal Cosme de Farias, located in the neighborhood of Nazaré, Salvador-BA, end the methodology adopted was a qualitative approach. The research addresses the importance of effectively applying law 10.639/03, which explains the mandatory teaching of content with a focus on black dances. Based on my experiences on the school floor seventeen years ago in the Salvador Municipal Education Network. In the study, I systematize Afro-perspectivist methodologies, proposing dance as an action to revive Afro-civilizing values, proposing creative and compositional processes, procedures that favor the development of attitudinal and relational skills, in addition to operational and cognitive ones. Once I noticed the situations of bullying and ethnic-racial erasure, which leads many children to not recognize themselves as black, resulting in the erasure of black dances in family and children's daily lives, religious intolerance and prejudice. In this research, I am based on the 4 pillars of Jacques Delors, that is, learning to be, to live together, to do and to know, and on the studies of bell hooks, Aza Njeri, Renato Noguera, Azoilda Trindade, Bas'llele Malomalo, Helena Katz and others. As a product, I present the Afro-perspectivist Artistic Pedagogical Manual “Lighting the Suns”, describing the artistic-pedagogical procedures developed.