Banca de DEFESA: LUANA MAYRA DUARTE GONÇALVES

THE BODY OF URBAN DANCES IN NATAL/RN: NOTES FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Body; Urban Dances; culture; Physical Education

Arrivals from the United States of America, Urban Dances gained space in Natal/RN in the Brazilian northeast. Opened its Scene along with the other elements that make up the Hip Hop Culture. They were seized by the potiguar bodies, resignifying themselves, founding senses and new meanings. This study aims to recognize the body that form in Urban Dances and in its own context, adding and redoing in its historicity. What we did according to the methodological way of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Two dancers and 2 dancers from the Natal scene contributed to the construction of this writing.