Estrela de Alagoas: narrativas da comunidade Ballroom em Maceió

Abstract

This work discusses issues about the Ballroom Community in Alagoas and presents the dance trajectory of Star Mother Diamond Muzi in connection with vogue dancing as an artistic formation. Her path was built from recognition and belonging using autoethnography as a methodology, tracing a dialogue with voguing techniques within the dance community. Understanding issues that permeate corporeality, such as social ills and phobias, were fundamental to the idealization of this work. The main questions that led to the writing of the work were guided by the perspective of the exclusion of bodies that are not within the established and socially accepted standard in dance spaces, thus, the Voguing dance was the technique studied and practiced, in this way, the perception that external factors influence the execution of techniques, was decisive in redirecting the focus of dance productions. The different experiences with dance were important to understand that in addition to the techniques, it is essential to understand oneself as a political individual, therefore, it was necessary to look for other references in dance that could provide real movements along with the feeling of belonging.