As crianças e o balé: construções, usos e formulações para a infância

Abstract

This research project comes up from the need of understanding the historical processes of children in ballet. In the last decades children became the main audience attracted to ballet classes and because of this, understanding the ways of this event became a research problem. So I propose a survey mainly bibliographic and iconographic in the European, American and Brazilian context, between the XIX and XXI centuries and how the artistic, pedagogical and social processes of these places crossed the current scenarios of what is characterized children's ballet. I reflect about the place of the child in the educational and artistic processes of the construction of the ballet as a stage dance and the changing of the profile of students, spaces, didatics and market that shaped the current interests for this age group.