Notes on curriculum and extension in the Performing Arts

correspondences exchanged between Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Universidade de Brasília

Abstract

This article records an exchange of correspondence between black professors in higher education in the Performing Arts who, through the writing of pedagogical and extension practices, reveal dilemmas and possibilities in the applicability of laws 10.639/03 and 11.645/08. Based on the experiences narrated, it concludes that teaching-learning proposals based on black diasporic and indigenous cosmoperceptions in academia are still restricted to extension and research activities. If, on the one hand, the slowness in inserting such content into university curricula reveals institutional racism, on the other, the integration of extension presents the challenge of not allowing itself to be subordinated to neoliberal interests. Finally, it considers that there will always be something that escapes the attempt to format these epistemologies, since they are living knowledge in constant movement.