The artistic-cultural paths and journeys along the Icoaraci-Belém and Belém-Icoaraci transits
enabled the Afro-Amazonian female body, immersed in relationships with dance and
capoeira, to build the epistemological praxis Dançaeira. On these paths, memories were
triggered from childhood in backyards, streets, schools, artistic-cultural experiences with
dance and capoeira, following a trajectory of girl-woman-mother-educator-teacher-researcher,
revealing the “living ancestry” that is present from the ancestral women who live in me. I call
on three sisters who wield the berimbau together with me and decolonize power in dance in
the Amazon with their poetics of “RE-existence”. I present possibilities for decolonial
theoretical-methodological paths in contemporary dance, following na autoethnographic flux,
by Fortin, sustained by the NOS-NÓS in which the “ties bind” with the world around us, with
the doings, knowledges and powers are realized from the perspective of malandragem.
Capoeira songs, poetry and authorial poetry-songs, photo images and video prints of
immersions during the research, authorial drawings emanate reflections of the process and the
striking presence of the berimbau, which impels the voice of the female body with its sounds
and touches, endorse the methodological path of the research. The interplay of the
dançaeirantes dialogues took in contributions from Freire, the pedagogical Praxis; Santos and
Menezes, the Epistemologies of the South and; Costa, Torres and Grosfoguel, Decoloniality,
which substantiate the non-hierarchical methodology that reveals the symbolism and
meanings of the seven elements of the Dançaeira in order to awaken them in you, from the
Amazon to the world.
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