TECHNICAL DANCE SCHOOLS: AN INVESTIGATIVE LOOK ON THE CONSTITUTION CENTER EDUCATIONAL ARTS OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE
Dance . Technical Course . Professionalisation
The history of the Technical level dance education in Brazil is recent. It has
begun in the 1960s and one of the first examples is the School of Theater and
Dance of Pará. It is worth mentioning that these schools are linked at its
inception to the ideals of the Technical School in Brazil dating from the 1900s
which were focused in professionalizing citizens. The research is of descriptive
and qualitative nature about the dance and its technical education in the city of
Natal and its object of study was Centro Educacional Norte-Rio-Grandense de
Artes (CENA). By using this method of research and in order to apply it, we
undressed ourselves of an attitude supported by a rational and linear logic. For
the production of research data some procedures were used , such as: literature
review, documentary research, living memory sources, interviews for data
collection and discussion of data collection. Based on the understanding that
the technical dance schools are artistic training places we proposed in this
research to present, to discuss and to analyze the Technical Course of Rio
Grande do Norte State Dance, as well as its goals and artistic / pedagogical
project as professional education. This research‘s effort also aims at understand
the creation and conception of the CENA, focusing on social, political and
cultural contexts within the State.