Sankofa Beatkillin: danças africanas e formação estética em diáspora

Abstract

This Academic memorial aims to expand the theoretical-practical field of interdisciplinary study of black dances and aesthetic manifestations from the African continent and its diaspora, observing and exploring the processes of creation and their references based on Africanity. In a contemporary and urban context that encompasses various historical contexts of oppression, resistance and insurgency, the artistic performance named Sankofa Beatkillin becomes the object of study and analysis of the methods, examples and movements that fertilize and give rise to an art-educational and aesthetic potential based on a black perspective of the world. Anchored in Sankofa's ideology, I disclose upon my academic trajectories and other epistemic paths provided by my experiences on and in the streets. Exchanging with other African authors and thoughts, this piece explores the black sensorial universe, expressing their corporal cosmoperception to reflect their political and social actions applied to their global and local reality. It presents crossroads between these knowledges, with the aim of experimenting and pointing out ways of providing sensitive dynamics for creative dance practices.