Performances on Planet Break

Dossier Ants and anthropologies

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2019.162333

Keywords:

Performance, Dance, Break dance, Liminality, Video

Abstract

The “cyphers” are the privileged places of experiences exchange between the breakdancers, when young people of diferente crews and territories socialize through dance. From the filming of theses cyphers in a break dance event I problematize the performances of b-boys and b-girls, composed of a rich repertoire of movements, aesthetics, gestures and facial expressions. Experienced as liminal moments, these performance simulate sometimes symbolic confrontations of dramatized violences, sometimes feeling of belonging to the same urban culture, transforming a mass of dancers into a sense of community.

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Author Biography

  • Otávio Raposo, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia

    Otávio Raposo is an invited assistant lecturer at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a researcher at the Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologies (CIES-IUL) in Lisbon. He carries out research in the fields of urban anthropology and youth cultures, having produced national and international publications, such as the books O trabalho da arte e a arte do trabalho: circuitos criativos de artistas imigrantes em Portugal (2016) and Expressões artísticas urbanas: etnografia e criatividade em espaços atlânticos (2015). He has made several documentaries, including “A galera” (2016) and “Nu bai. O rap negro de Lisboa” (2007). E-mail: otavio_raposo@iscte-uol.pt

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Raposo, Otávio. 2014. “Nós representa a favela mano”. B-boys da Maré superando estereótipos. Revista Antropolítica 37: 21-50.

Raposo, Otávio. 2013. Coreografias da amizade: estilos de vida e segregação entre os jovens do break dance da Maré (Rio de Janeiro). Tese de doutoramento, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa.

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Documentário

Raposo, Otávio. 2016. A galera. Lisboa, Portugal, cor, 45’.

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Published

2019-10-24

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Gesture, image and sounds

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Raposo, Otávio. 2019. “Performances on Planet Break: Dossier Ants and Anthropologies”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 4 (1): 333-36. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2019.162333.