Mojuba ara! Summoning the embodied and ancestral knowledge of the africandiáspora

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https://doi.org/10.5965/1414573103562025e0111

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Mojuba, afrodiasporic dances, ancestry, decoloniality in dance

Abstract

Based on an "imaginative operation" (Tavares, 2020), mojuba ara emerges as a decolonial exercise in summoning the embodied knowledges that constitute the afrodiaspora. Arguments were presented that demonstrate how colonization and modern western thought founded racist discourses about black bodies and knowledge. Finally, some examples from the field of Afrodiasporic dances demonstrated how they are permeated by values ​​such as ancestry and musicality, expressing unique conceptions of body and dance and justifying the need to revise the histories and curricula of the performing arts at all levels of Brazilian education, in light of our own experiences.

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Laís Salgueiro Garcez, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Doutorado em Artes Cênicas pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Mestrado em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Especialização em Preparação Corporal nas Artes Cênicas pela Faculdade Angel Vianna (FAV). Graduação em Dança pela FAV. Prof.ª Faculdade Angel Vianna.

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2025-12-18

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GARCEZ, Laís Salgueiro. Mojuba ara! Summoning the embodied and ancestral knowledge of the africandiáspora. Urdimento: Revista de Estudos em Artes Cênicas, Florianópolis, v. 3, n. 56, p. 1–17, 2025. DOI: 10.5965/1414573103562025e0111. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/27895. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 3 No. 56 (2025): As artes vivas e o Antropoceno/Capitaloceno | Currículo, Decolonialidade e Formação Docente nas Artes Cênicas

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Dossiê Temático: Currículo, Decolonialidade e Formação Docente nas Artes Cênicas

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