A valorização da cultura amazônica através da Dança do Café na Escola de Tempo Integral Marques de Santa Cruz

Abstract

In the present time it is becoming quite difficult to maintain the folk and popular traditions of Brazil. It is that in public schools modernity arrived packed with songs of today and, therefore, the dances. Thus, each year that passes we realize that in some schools during the period of the June festivities no longer present our traditional dances such as Quadrilha, Ciranda, Carimbó, Boi-Bumbá, Danças do Café, Cangaços. The students' preference for popular non-folk dances such as funk, hip hop, and swinging are notorious. We realize that every year the problem only grows to the detriment of the valorization of our culture. Our concern as a researcher is that traditional folk dances disappear in the dust of time and in the neglect of the population in keeping our culture alive. At the end of the research, we believe that it is possible to guarantee the preservation of the popular culture of traditional folk dances in our schools, through interventions that seek to arouse in the pupil the interest for the culture of our State. Our objective was to investigate possibilities of creating forms of intervention in the school environment that allow the appreciation of Brazilian popular culture through traditional folk dances at the State School of Integral Marquis de Santa Cruz, identifying the contributions of folkloric dance teaching in schools, including research the reason why folk dances are not contemplated in the Arts content. Folk Dances as a socio-cultural factor and in the school context must be developed to convey popular knowledge. Its characteristics must be safeguarded. Therefore, the transmission of traditional folk dances through school would also be a way to contribute to the appreciation and even preserve Brazilian popular culture that is being dominated by globalization. From the process carried out with the students, we can realize that the objectives were achieved through the methodology applied, passing the students to have the greatest interest in the Amazonian popular culture developed through the Coffee Dance.