CORPO E GESTUALIDADE NOS PASTORIS POTIGUAR

Abstract

The Pastoral is a dance drama, transformed into a secular-religious syncretism that is well received particularly in the Northeast of Brazil taking root in new re-constructions of characters like the Old Master and the foreman of ballet. This paper aims to understand the body and demeanor of popular dance, in especially dance of Pastoral. Introducing the phenomenological attitude of Merleau-Ponty as a reference method