“Quebradeira” na escola: um experimento pedagógico com a swingueira no ensino de dança na educação de jovens e adultos na escola da Penha em João Pessoa – PB

Abstract

This research had as main objective to develop a pedagogical experiment seeking to explore the educational potential of Swingueira, in the school environment united to the UFPB's Pedagogical Dance Program. The Swingueira, a popular cultural practice of young people from the periphery that involves music and dance very present in large cities in the Northeast, is equivalent in this region to the musical genre known as Pagode Baiano. Based on the author's own experience as a dancer and choreographer from Swingueira, it is proposed to insert a teaching dance activity based on the students' culture. The research has a participative qualitative approach structured by an intervention with 4 dance workshops for young people from Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) at the Municipal School Antônio Santos Coelho Neto located in the coastal district of Penha in João Pessoa. The classes of cycles III and IV participated in the activities, once a week, on the arts discipline timing. The classes were structured with stretching, warm-up, dynamics, choreographic composition and conversation circle. They were based on the researcher's empirical experience and on dance researchers such as Rudolf Laban and Isabel Marques through opening up the field of possibilities with different ways of thinking and doing dance. Such references adapted in dialogue with Swingueira at school provided contributions to the dance teaching in schools by giving young people the opportunity to know better their own body and experience different ways of moving. In addition, the research highlights and encourages the need to work with local culture, not hierarchizing mass, popular and school culture. This enabled an horizontal knowledge exchange between teacher and students and the valorization of dance in school. As being a small experiment in which Swingueira was present in a pedagogical proposal for dance, the research points to the need for its continuity in other educational spaces where more young people can have this experience and the relationship between dance education and Swingueira can contribute to the development of education in schools.