Bailes de resistência: a cultura Ballroom como um instrumento de construção da paz

Abstract

The present work aims to understand, through the articulation of the theoretical foundations of Gender Studies, Sexuality and Peace Studies, how Ballroom Culture, as an artistic, cultural, political and social movement created around the 1970s in the USA by the black, Latin and peripheral North American LGBTQIA + community in the state of New York, constitutes itself as an instrument for building Peace, taking into account its role as a combat agent against the most varied forms of violence. Therefore, to understand the researched issue, the work will have as a methodological research process: the selection of analysis theories and theorists, collection of sources, analytical interpretation of historical data in the light of theories. It will be investigated how the balls - marked by performances, artistic interventions, parades and different styles of dance - alongside the idea of "Houses" - served as a place of exaltation, celebration, belonging and acceptance of gender and sexuality diversity, thus allowing the confrontation of violence and the establishment of Spaces of Peace.