A Constituição do sujeito na atividade estética da dança do ventre

Abstract

This text presents a research that aims to understand in which way the aesthetic activity of belly dance is concretized, and its mediation on the constitution of subjectivity. From a historical-cultural perspective, the analysis of an interview with a belly dancer revealed many aesthetic relations intervening the dance performance: how the belly dancer relates to the technique, to her body, to the music, to the public, to the sacred, to feminine conceptions. The text perceives that different possibilities of subjectivation are engendered through these relations, and converge in the constitution of the dancer as the aesthetic subject of the belly dance.