Lugar de memória : trajetória e contribuições de Marcelo Moacyr Ramos para a dança brasileira

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis aims to analyze the artistic, educational, and pedagogical trajectory of Marcelo Moacyr Ramos, identifying his contributions to Brazilian dance and to the establishment of the institutional memory of dance at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). To this end, the methodology adopted is qualitative in nature, involving documentary research and oral history, through interviews with Professor Marcelo Moacyr Ramos aimed at recalling his perceptions of his professional career, as well as a documentary analysis of his personal collection, academic articles, and doctoral dissertation. The analysis revealed details about his move to France, his enrollment in the Cinematography and Audiovisual Studies program at the University of Vincennes – now the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis – when he was a student at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, the London School of Contemporary Dance – The Place – Laban Centre for Movement and Dance – now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, his return to Brazil, the formation of Ballet Rural, his direction of the Gicá Youth Dance Company of the Axé Project, his joining the faculty of the Dance Department at the Federal University of Sergipe, and his major contributions to the institution, notably the UFS Dance and Performance Group (GDP-UFS), the Húmus Group, and the UFS Youth Dance Company (CJD-UFS).