K-pop e o K-cover como práticas de introdução à dança: globalização, mídia e periferia

Abstract

This work, in the form of an experience report, aims to describe K-cover as an artistic practice of media dance, capable of promoting knowledge about dance and how it impacts the experience of a person who has not had formal training, highlighting the importance of media accessibility, based on personal experience in a K-pop cover dance group in Aracaju. The experience reported encompasses eight years of participation in the NightLight group, where the practice of K-cover proved to be a bridge to access different dance styles, such as vogue, waacking, hip-hop, ballroom, heels, among others, expanding the artistic repertoire even outside formal educational spaces.This study is based on authors such as Ernst Fischer, Stuart Hall, Néstor García Canclini, Henry Jenkins, and Dal Yong Jin, who address concepts such as art, multiculturalism, cultural identity, participatory culture, and globalization. The discussion points to K-pop as a hybrid and transnational expression that allows for cultural re-signification and the protagonism of young people in peripheral contexts. Through this practice, the power of pop culture as a formative, inclusive, and transformative tool is evident.