Black Performance and Body Dramaturgy in the Batuque

Abstract: The expansion of what can be considered as a scene, show or performance is a major contribution of Ethnoscenology and Performance Studies to the field of the Performing Arts, breaking borders that are based on the colonialism of knowledge, which radically separated art from grassroots culture, putting creation and tradition in different poles. This shift of paradigm opens the possibility of thinking the body dramaturgy of the African-Brazilian rituals as a construct of the relationship between body and ancestry. It is in this perspective that this paper presents a discussion on the black performance of batuque, more specifically the Suça, from Natividade (TO/Brazil).摘要：民族场景学（Ethnoscenology）与表演研究（Performance Studies）对表演艺术领域的一大重要贡献，在于拓展了“场景、展演或表演”的范畴，打破了基于知识殖民主义的边界——该边界曾将艺术与草根文化彻底割裂，使创作与传统分置于两极。这一范式转向使得我们可以将非裔巴西仪式的身体剧作（body dramaturgy）视为身体与祖先血脉之间关系的建构产物。正是基于这一视角，本文针对巴图克（batuque）的黑人表演展开讨论，具体聚焦于巴西托坎廷斯州纳蒂维达迪镇的苏卡（Suça）流派。