Xaxado e criação artística: um estudo sobre ressignificações da cultura popular no ambiente escolar formal

Abstract

The activity with popular dances in formal school requires special attention. The school work with what comes from the universe of artistic production in the ambit of popular culture needs pedagogical approaches contextualized to the lived world of the students. In the classroom, it becomes necessary to provide an experience that goes beyond silenced reproduction, which is also a process of teaching and learning based on reflection, criticism and perception of the body in the social and cultural space in which it moves. This work, as a result of research by the Professional Master in Arts (PROFARTES / UFPB), in the line of research on teaching, learning and arts creation processes, refers to the search for possibilities of re-signification of popular culture in the formal school environment. In practice, it is delimited in the transformation of the xaxado, as popular dance spectacularly produced and diffused in Alto Sertão Paraibano, where is located the school in which the research happens, the State School of Primary and Secondary Education Bernardino José Batista, in the municipality of Triunfo. In this way, the students were involved in a process in which they are invited to experience a series of activities, conducted under the practice of improvisation exercises and by a somatic approach in dance, for the playful construction of new patterns of movements, obtained from the parameters of the xaxado. The dissertation raises the discussion about the idea of tradition in confrontation with the possibilities of reworking this dance. It is investigated how it is possible to provide a new reading of a popular dance with students of basic education without it happening centered in the stereotype of closed norms and esthetics of the festivals, that contribute to an idea of pattern. As a result, a pedagogical and creative approach was developed that resulted in a presentation and continuity of the process at school. There was also a change in ways of thinking about traditions, of practicing dance and of perceiving the body on the scene, leading to new possibilities of manifesting one's own individualities.