DANCES, PERFORMANCES AND (NEW) “EPIDEMICS”

WHAT DOES SCHOOL HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?

Abstract

The controversy surrounding Batcu that occurred during the event Em Prosa Brasil - 1st Mobilization Meeting for Health Promotion in Brazil invites us to (re)think some aspects surrounding performances and performativity. Which bodies can perform? Where can they perform? Is there a definition of an appropriate territoriality for such performances? Shifting the debate to the field of education, how does such a movement enable us to also (re)think the school space, this being not a territory, but a location? The article aims to problematize the devices that make certain performances intelligible to the detriment of others, creating entanglements with identity policies that, on the one hand, advance their agendas, but which, on the other, are perceived, once again, to be reserved to certain spaces , especially when hidden within “four walls”, continuing biopolitical structures of exploitation. We are also interested in thinking about the location of such performances, diffracting with “sudaka” bodies that increasingly leak through fissures, occupy spaces, including the school, and require us to make attempts, and always attempts, to escape the normative captures.