Ecodances: Reflections on Afro-Indigenous Artistic Practices as Research

Abstract

This article seeks to share some notes about the research-art developed in the field of Dance Studies. To this end, it traces a path that focuses on artistic practices of African or indigenous descent. We start from the following problematic: “why establish in the context of the debates on the practice as research a cutout of ethno-racial character?”. It is assumed that the artistic practices produced by racially minority subjectivities are syntheses of experiences of resistance in war contexts. It starts from the idea of war as a historical condition implemented by colonialism in the field of social life. The category ecodance is presented as a set of black and indigenous artistic practices that produce politics of life, and the meaning attributed to the idea of aquilombúnquers is shared. It is hoped to collaborate with the debates structured in the field of practice as research.