Will dias & the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos.
The intervention performed by Will Dias promotes an understanding of the place of
memory that the church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos occupies, if identified and
by the residents of its surroundings, or, by a cinematography that has skateboarding as one of its privileged means of expression.
one of its privileged means of expression. We know that this church has witnessed several
We know that this church has witnessed several moments of the surrounding community & has witnessed changes in the
potiguar & landscape, in the district of Cidade Alta, in the municipality of Natal, Rio Grande do
Norte.
The lack of information about this heritage relegates the church to urban invisibility & to
a dangerous oblivion for the local artistic heritage. In this way, we intend to
the importance of this social space to the local memory & contribute to regional historiographical
regional historiographic discussions, collaborating with the construction of the history of Rio Grande do Norte
of Rio Grande do Norte, and therefore, of Brazil.
The center of this narrative are the brotherhoods and lay catholic brotherhoods of Africans and
Afro-descendants in Brazil. Thus, we undertake an investigation of the brotherhoods of devotion to
devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary and the Africans in Brazil, glimpsing their practices & strategies
strategies, circumscribing a particular group of people, generically called "pretos".
"blacks.
This brings us back to the origins of the devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary & its adoption process
adoption by Africans & their descendants. This historical contextualization implies in the observation
observation of Brazil in its economic, administrative, social, population.
its relationship with the Irmandades do Rosário, culminating in its dynamics.
This exercise ends up identifying the singularities of these brotherhoods, their differences
differences, similarities, ending up in the importance of these devotions in the African
African diaspora in Brazil. The identification with these different groups of Africans that made up
The identification with these different groups of Africans that made up the membership of the brotherhoods of Our Lady of the Rosary,
the importance & the meaning of these associations in the daily life of these populations, both in the
populations, both in the construction of their identities and in the identity of Will dias.
According to the dancer Terená Karouté: "doing black contemporary dance, beyond
dance steps, is to dance our history, stories of resistance, the stories of our ancestors
ancestors & the stories of people who are together with us".
The need to reflect on & give visibility to the new perspectives regarding the
aesthetics and poetics that represent the desires and the pluralistic scenic desires of black bodies in contemporary
in contemporary Brazilian dance, skateboarding & visual arts. The poetics of this
The poetics of this aesthetic process highlights the affections as a tool for resistance.
Here we find links to the Negritude Movement. Afro-Franco-Caribbean literary
Afro-French-Caribbean literary movement, based on the idea that there is a cultural bond shared by black
shared by black Africans and their descendants wherever they are in the world. &, one of the
symbols that can be inferred from this work are the colors of their clothing, red
& black. Colors generally associated with Exú, the Lord of the Ways, in many Afro-Brazilian
Afro-Brazilian religious expressions. Which brings us to the passage of the beautiful song where we can hear
Laroyê, Legba, open the path of the steps, open the path of the look, open a peaceful
tranquil way for me to pass...
Will dias & the Irmandade Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos: malungos,
navigation comrades!
text - Fábio Pimentel
production - Renato Zokreta
creative idea - Jorge Levi
