Bailarinas e bailarinos: Uma etnografia da dança como profissão

Abstract

This paper studies the factors attracting to dancing, activity that lures a minority that uses the body as both labor instrument and resource for transgression of its own conditions of existence. Dancers are here taken as pertinent and challenging objects for a socio-anthropological analysis in so far as their figure and professional choice brings to surface elements relative to the tensions surrounding class, gender, artistic performance and route deviations that ought to be explored, having as a point of departure the body, as major carrier of social marks.