IN THE ORIXAS TOUR: PERFORMANCES OF CHILDREN'S BODY BODIES AND CREATION PROCESSES IN SCIENTIFIC ARTS IN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION
Performances. Bouncing Bodies. African Culture. Performing Arts. Child education.
This dissertation proposes the experience of the performances of children 's playful bodies in Early Childhood education stimulated by elements of African culture through the universe of the Orixás gods, with a cut in the Yoruba nation. The processes of creation in art evidenced in this research in Scenic Arts were developed in the NEI / Cap / UFRN, with a group of children of 5 and 6 years old and also had the participation of the 2 teachers responsible for this group and other professionals of the institution . Observations, interviews with adults, dialogues with children and artistic workshops with playful mediation and the use of storytelling, games / corporal games, anchored in the languages of dance, theater and use of elements of musicality were experienced. Marina Marcondes Machado (2010a, 2010b). The methodological anchorage develops from the contributions of the author Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1999, 2006) and his phenomenological view on the body and childhood, articulating with the contributions of the researcher in Performing Arts, Marina Marcondes Machado , among others. He also talks with other authors about the themes of Africanism, negritude, orixás, such as Sandra Petit (2015), Kiusam de Oliveira (2009, 2019), Kabengele Munanga (1999, 2001), Reginaldo Prandi (2001), among others. others. Recognizing and valuing African wealth in Early Childhood Education, a crucial moment in the formation of children, corroborates with a more critical, open, respectful society and with the applicability of Law 10.639 / 03, also as dimension and political action.