Movements on the Sankofa routes: Points of sharing, dances and ethnic-racial implications.
Dances; Black experiences;Whiteness; Racism; Anti-racism.
With this work, I aim to stress the institutionalized organism of dances in Brazil, pointing out operations of racism as a structural constituent that conditions and normalizes violence of appropriation, exclusion, exotification, disqualification and invisibilization of bodies and epistemologies in the area. With a relational stance, I imply whiteness, supposedly neutral and universal, as a driving force for the maintenance and reinvention of colonial logics that sustain privileges and function for the perpetuation of these operatives. Investigating my own journey in an ethnocenological perspective of trajectory and weaving analytical relationships with the macro project of the country, I position myself in an Afro-referenced place of action and investigation to inquire about dance as an investigative and practical field about its silence in relation to ethnic-racial violence. that are also present in the bowels of its institutional organism in the scope of training, management, research, scenes, promotion, markets, among others. With this initiative, in addition to notes and problematizations, I wish to invite us to other relational, political, affective and ethical dancing movements, fostering, who knows, other ways of (trusting) the textures that connect us in life and in dances