A indumentária simbólica - das festas ao teatro: a congada na comunidade dos Arturos
AUTOR(ES)
Adriana Vaz Ramos
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2000
RESUMO
Congada is the name of popular parties given to honour Our Lady of Black Mens Rosary. Such popular manifestations are common throughout Brazil but only a few still keep the tradicional origin. The Congadas, which are always related to slavery issues, are very expressive in Minas, where they first appeared in the Colonial period. One of the parties that most keeps the old tradition is given by the Arturos, a black communit that live in Contagem, a city near Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais. Every year the Arturos, an Our Ladys Rosary Brotherhood, put on typical clothes loaded with symbols and meanings and become the Congo and Moçambiques guards to sing and dance in honour to their Patron Saint. In 1999, Cristina Tolentino, a theatre director, directed a play called Cuenda, where she transfereed the Rosarys brothers party to stage. I had the opportunity of dressing and doing the make-up of the Cuendas characters, which demanded a great deal of research that is reported on this paper. Therefore, the clothes and make-up analysis used in Arturos party, as well as the transformation of the symbols and meanings into costumes for the play are the main objectives of my research
ASSUNTO(S)
devoção festas populares comunicacao caracterização cuenda nossa senhora do rosário dos homens pretos
