Dançagrafias de corpas indígenas em luta: acampamento terra livre e marcha das mulheres indígenas

Abstract

The object of study of this dissertation is the dances performed in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 in two indigenous mobilizations: Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) and Marcha das Mulheres Indígenas (MMI). The main objective is to analyze the dances of indigenous bodies as a power of life in co-existence in the face of coloniality and understand movement as an ancestral and collective heritage for the continuity of their corpas-territories, in the face of relationships established between indigenous dance, body, cognition and confronting state policies. To this end, a methodological approach is used that combines bibliographic review and field research (via the application of semi-structured interviews with indigenous bodies participating in the mobilizations that constitute the research corpus). Regarding the bibliographic review, the following authors stand out: Helena Katz (2005); Christine Greiner (2005); Eliane Potiguara (2018); Geni Nuñez (2019); Sandra Benites (2018); William McNeill (1995); Ailton Krenak (2022, 2020); and Davi Kopenawa (2015). In addition to those mentioned, the compilation of Indigenous Literature articles, organized by Trudruá Dorrico (2020), is also essential for research. The hypothesis raised here considers dance as a political and cognitive act of struggle, as it activates muscular and ancestral links capable of promoting kinesthetic ordering and, therefore, strengthening bodies in ways of grouping together and collectively resisting. To resist, the ability to be resilient, to live in a spiral and in continuous movement with the collective, is emphasized here.