Dançando o boile no Sucuri/GO

Abstract

This is a course conclusion work whose theme is a cultural manifestation of the Sucuri quilombola community in the Municipality of Monte Alegre de Goiás. In this community, there is a dance called boile that takes place during family celebrations and religious festivals after novenas. However, this tradition is disappearing because the younger generation in the community is not interested in participating, knowing or learning how to dance. Faced with this situation, I thought about developing some action in the community that could draw the attention of young people in the community to this situation and I observed that this would be possible through this course completion work, bringing together academic knowledge and community knowledge to study the history of the boile dance of the Kalunga Sucuri community and involve young people, children and adults in a process of safeguarding culture and tradition, especially the new generations. The intention was to develop an intervention plan, inviting children and young people from Escola Estadual Calunga V, where I teach, to participate in a project to practice dance and investigate together. The methodology used to develop the study follows a qualitative approach, which has as one of its characteristics the development of research in a natural environment, which is the direct source of data. In turn, technically, the study intends to develop a participatory musical ethnography, a current that aims to constitute a bridge between the interests of the researcher and the Kalunga Sucuri community since, in addition to the study, we intend to contribute to the continuity and preservation of the boile dance, through an intervention plan at the community school. The intervention plan lasted one academic semester, involving the school community in data collection, as the subjects participated by asking their parents and grandparents about the dance, participated in the rehearsals and then made a presentation to the school community and the community. Sucuri community. By involving the school community and the Sucuri community in this intervention, we try to show the younger generation and older people in the community the importance of preserving our culture, rooted in our collective memories. We show that this dance helped us build the identity that defines us, which helped us all understand the value of the culture of our people, of a community hidden in the gaps of the mountains. In this way, we established our identity pattern, according to the different ways of acting in this choreography of the boile dance, recognizing our differences and similarities in the ways of feeling the boile, in order to preserve and defend the joyful way of living of the Kalunga from Sucuri, portrayed through boile’s choreography. We realize that the past brings with it a series of experiences and feelings that are transmissible from parents to children, from the culture of our people, from a community hidden in the gaps of the mountains.