Entre giros, gingas e escritas me enegreço: encruzilhadas do meu corpo negro feminino no teatro

Abstract

Between the image of the crossroads in which the ginga, the twists and the writing meet to form body, to make voice to cross to other meetings, in a non-space, is that I begin my research for the graduation graduation work in the course of Performing Arts Bachelor's Degree - Theatrical Interpretation. This study becomes "concrete" in practice through the effort to remember my memories of my process as a black actress during the four years of the course. The research goes through a singular path regarding the experience of a black woman as an actress in a white space, without references and for that reason having to find ways and new ways to "corpar", to blacken and to make the theater also its place of resistance . Among reports of a still oppressed experience, poems and reflections about their processes, which the actress presents questions and speaks of a somewhat darker theater within the University. The intention of the work is to contribute to the research in theater, looking for a way to conceptualize the female black body on the scene or at least to make it more visible, thus enriching this area of ​​knowledge production. The writing of this text predominates in the reflection of all the processes that built the black body of the actress for the final graduation process. Through interviews, review of the diaries made during the course and theoretical studies about the black body on the scene, resignified and transformed constantly to create space, blacken the actions and try to answer a single question: "Is there a singularity in the black female body on the scene?". The work through capoeira strokes, Iemanjá 's spins, performance and writing, were the methodological paths chosen and the central points investigated for creation and encounter with the body, used by the actress. Frustrations, questioning and revolt are present, sometimes impelling the work of creation and sometimes exploding in space in an attempt to make itself heard, to bring life to art in the raw way it is felt.