A performance cultural na Dança dos Mascarados

Abstract

The concept of the cultural performance, as dramaturgical proposal was articulated through Schechner and Turner’s studies, of conception that all restored behavior is a performance trying to reveal the dynamic character, living and community own transformer (DAWSEY, 2013). The cultural performance occurs in different social contexts, each performance, creates new configurations, new spaces and spectators. In this study, we observed the Dança dos Mascarados of Poconé, composed by 28 men who dress up with masks and colorful clothes, for the realization of collective ritual, playing a connection between the dancers and the community. Thinking in the Dança dos Mascarados as a cultural performance, it is possible to think in the dance as a daily extra action, an art of presence and a collective action. The dance interrupts the routine experiences and is part of a new temporality.