A transposição histórica artística do Breakdance: das ruas para as academias em Manaus

Abstract

This research work presents a part of the history of the dance in Amazon, specifically Breakdance, and the main aim is to investigate the process of transposition from streets to the academies or studios of Dance in Manaus, looking for primary sources to back the final analyses, considering the oral sources, in other words, the ballet dancers' reports, choreographers, dj´s, teachers and dancers of Breakdance that lived that artistic path. In agreement with the interviewees' narratives, the history begins in the end of the nineties and is prolonged until the year 2000. The transition from the streets to the academies happens in a systematic and slow way, but noticing in the spaces as a dance that joins benefits in general the health and the dance. The main authors that contributed in the bibliographical part were Ribeiro and Cardoso (2011), Guarato (2008), Souza (2015, 2016), Barata (2016) among other researchers of Breakdance, Dances of Street and Urban Dances.