José Manuel Alvarez Seara
University of Deusto in Bilbao - Spain.
Title: Negotiations and rearrangements in the Tango and Samba Gafieira dances in the cities of Buenos Aires, Montevideo and São Paulo, from a gender and sexual diversity perspective
Biography
Biography: José Manuel Alvarez Seara
Abstract
This research investigates how people react or reinterpret the situation of gender stereotypes in tango and samba dance. The tango and samba gafieira dances have a gender matrix that reinforces a certain masculinity associated with leadership and power that are socially constructed and that also require a specific analysis with a gender perspective, social class and ethnicity. It seems that the dance comes to reinforce certain gender stereotypes of heteronormative masculinity and femininity. It seems that there is in the classroom dances a dramatization of certain gender roles that represent a heteronormative matrix.
The analysis of these dances from the theories of gender and diversity made it possible to visualize and question the existence of such gender stereotypes, and how people react, reinterpret and negotiate those stereotypes.
The methodology to be used will be predominantly qualitative. This is a case study, in which various instruments will be used: interviews and participant observations in specific dance spaces of these dances and schools where these dances are taught.
It is observed he use of a heteronormative language that helps to sediment certain stereotypes of being male and female was observed mostly in the tango and samba gafieira dance classes and dances. It is mostly observed in the classes and dances that men have the people who lead and the women who are led in the dance classes.
Some of the people interviewed say that they feel the look on them when they dance differently and place the need to show that you can dance in a non-heteronormative way.