Dança do ventre e feminilidade: análise dos relatos de praticantes

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Serretti, Amine Nassif Magalhães [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Dança do ventre; Mulheres; Auto-estima; Feminilidade; Belly dance
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/135947; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/25-02-2016/000858554.pdf

Belly dancing is among the primitive sacred dances in a mythical-religious context of acient Middle East civilizations. Arising from rituals geared to female divinities, this dance symbolizes life, fertility and growth. We investigated how the dance, as a cultural production, acts as a nonverbal communication element in several dimensions related to the practitioners. This study may contribute to broaden the comprehension of the growing expansion of festivals, demand for lessons and media materials of the area, considering the lack of quantitative studies on the subject. The aim of this study was to investigate how dancing interferes and transforms quantitatively and qualitatively the image that wome have of themselves and of their relationships. The study sample consisted of 100 female participants, practicing belly dance for at least one year, from 5 different dance schools in two distinct cities the countryside of Sâo Paulo State, whose ages varied between 20 and 65 years. Data were collected through two intruments: the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and a questionnaire with open and closed questions, with quantitative scales. Analyzing closed questions of intensity and frequency, the items femininity and joy of dancing were the ones with the highest average and the lowest standard deviation among the answers. The lowest average, however, was the feeling of eroticism of dancing, contradicting social beliefs. As for correlations made between self-steem and other variables, we obtained significant results in: how often dance alone, improve physical posture and changes in interpersonal relationships. When a woman dances, she learns how to deal with her body, which changes every day. With discipline and self-observation of her mistakes and difficulties, the woman becomes more confident by getting to know herself more; learns how to deal with her a body and her emotions. From the self-confidence and positive self-concept that...