Por uma política cidadã do corpo: a função comunicativa do nacionalismo na dança no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Paixão, Paulo
• Orientador(a): Greiner, Christine
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Comunicação e Semiótica
• Departamento: Comunicação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Corpo nacional; Brasilidade; Caracteristicas nacionais brasileiras; Danca > Brasil > Historia; Corpo humano > Aspectos sociais > Brasil; Corpo humano na arte
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: National body; Communication; Brazilian; Dance
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5181

The aim of this thesis is to consider some of the key communication strategies tested in different historical periods in Brazil since the 1920s, to construct images of what is identified as a "national body". The signs of this supposed Brazilianness, understood as a set of elements arbitrarily chosen to illustrate the typical Brazilian, have been used on a recurrent practice in the dance in Brazil since its professionalization. The thesis proposes as one of the background elements to this phenomenon, the process of colonization of the country, as some of the most striking images and signs have been built and preserved since then. To analyze the various versions of the "national body", the author has made a review of works that tell the story of this kind of representation of dance (PEREIRA, 2003; KATZ, 1994; NAVAS, 1999), of studies that propose a Brazilian Social Theory (CHAUÍ, 2007; ORTIZ, 2006; SCHWARTZ, 2000) and of the Theory of Bodymedia (GREINER; KATZ, 2005) that moves the discussion of the scope of art history and sociology to the field of communication. The corpus of the thesis was composed by documents (videos, DVDs and photos), by choreographies, articles of newspapers and specialized press and shows. The most significant result was the epistemological displacement of the notions of identity, of national body and of Brazilianness to the context of contemporary discussions which examine the body and culture from a systemic and procedural approach, rather than reduce them to products according to stereotyped parameters and pre-designed models for export