Juntó for to move Sankofa: Performer’s writings in the African diaspora

Abstract

This research presents an afro-referenced perspective and its catalytic effects in performing arts. It is developed in the Postgraduate Program in Dance at UFBA, and it is founded on the premises of Ancestry, the Sankofa adinkra, the cosmoperception that encompasses the whole being, and Candomblé. All these premises are centralized on and has as its starting point the black body, a body that is also candomblecist, peripheral to the margins of society, and grown up on the countryside. It is urgent that performance be guided by the very doings, inspirations and theoretical-practical basis of being a black person. The employed methodologies are Escrevivência (self-writing) along with autoethnography applied in the Performing Arts, bringing materials from the researcher practice in dialogue with the theoretical basis; practice together with writing, therefore: the Juntó. The purpose of this knot is to untie ancestral Afro-diasporic paths in performing arts.