Linguagens no bailado dos cirandeiros de Manacapuru: um diálogo entre o movimento, a arte e a cultura

Abstract

This work is based on the idea that popular culture has a significant role to play in local, regional and national development. Popular manifestations and expressions are considered to make a major contribution to the construction of a people cultural identity. Our focus is on aspects related to the experience in Manacapuru-Amazonas, specifically the Manacapuru Ciranda Festival, a very popular cultural manifestation in the state of Amazonas, considered the second largest folk festival in the interior of Amazonas and one of the largest in the Brazilian North region. Routine life is changed during this period, in the most different artistic and cultural aspects, partially altering the structure of the city, involving the economic, social, cultural and educational segments. There are three groups: Tinted Flower, Freedom Wall Warriors and Traditional, each with characteristics recognizable by their colors. They perform on three nights of the festival, where a draw is made to identify and allocate specific days for each one deals with historical and sociocultural processes involving symbolic systems such as languages, signs and artistic manifestations at festivals. The research undertaken was descriptive- exploratory and aimed, in general terms hat investigate the main perceptions of the cirandeiros and cirandeiras in relation to the body, observing the corporeal language used in the compositions of the choreographies in terms of functional, aesthetic, artistic and sociocultural aspects, observing the movement, rhythm, among others, that make up the Cirandas of Manacapuru-Am. In other words, it consisted of going to the research field to explore the object of study and describe it, since it was proposed to understand the phenomenon based on the data and references provided by the population studied. From a phenomenological point of view, we looked at Merleau-Ponty's studies using a qualitative approach on the body and language in the manifestation of ciranda in Manacapuru-AM, where our research subjects were choreographers, cirandeiras and cirandeiros from the three associations. Given all the evidence, it became clear that although the dynamics are very similar in the three groups, everyone who makes up this space is unique, that is, each body, in its own way of communicating, thinking, organizing and relating to the world, according to its experiences in these spaces. It adapts or changes to fulfill the role it must play in the context in which it is inserted. We hope that this work can serve as a call for new theoretical constructions on the subject, given its importance for Amazonian society and culture, the scene of so much natural and historical beauty and the wealth of men and women who make and remake themselves all the time in this corner of the world.