Eros Volúsia - Performance, creative poetics and identity affirmation

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v3i2.9040

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Dance, Poetics, Performance, Identity, Cultural Industry

Abstract

Starting at the 1940s, Rio de Janeiro, then Brazilian federal capital and power center, begins to produce and project to Brasil an image of the “carioca” that encompasses both the idea of this individual as a member of the civilised nations intended by the elites, and also as someone who has peculiar sway, musicality and humour, brought by popular and African American cultural movements. Under the influence of World War II and the good neighbour policy stronger ties are forged between the Latin American dictatorships and the United States government. In this cultural context, Eros Volúsia emerges in exuberant performance as a dancer, teacher and creator of Brazilian Dance, a multiple and contradictory reality between tradition and popular. More than a poster girl, Eros blasts the scene with creative poetics, being more than and beyond what is expected.

English version: Henrique Rochelle

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Author Biography

Denise Mancebo Zenicola, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Denise Zenicola has a Doctorate in Performing Arts (UNIRIO) and a Post-Doctorate in African Dances and Corporal Graphics funded by CAPES in Lisbon. She is a dancer, choreographer and theatre director, working with fusions of contemporary dances and African descendant aesthetics. Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, she is also the coordinator for the working group on Performance Studies at ABRACE (Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas). Published author of Ritual and Performance, she works in transdiciplinary researches among the fields of dance, theatre, memory, black art and video-dance.

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18-12-2016

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ZENICOLA, D. M. Eros Volúsia - Performance, creative poetics and identity affirmation. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 2, p. 209–225, 2016. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v3i2.9040. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/9040. Acesso em: 24 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): Dance, art of the body, and other bodies of arts

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