"Olha lá quem vem virando a esquina”: cruzamentos estéticos entre o rap e o universo pop para a criação em dança

Abstract

This paper presents and reflects on an artistic-pedagogical process of dance creation developed in the undergraduate Dance Education program at the Federal Institute of Goiás – Aparecida de Goiânia Campus, within the curricular component *Creation Atelier I – Popular Dances, Urban and Media Contexts*. The experience was triggered by bringing together the musical works “Rapper’s Delight,” by the American group The Sugarhill Gang, and “Ragatanga,” performed by the Brazilian group Rouge, seeking to investigate the aesthetic, historical, and cultural intersections produced by the circulation of rap and hip-hop references within the realm of pop culture. The process combined listening and analysis of musicalities, bodily experimentation, improvisation, and collaborative choreographic composition. The reflections engaged with Canclini (2015), Chang (2005), Hall (2003), hooks (2021), Osumare (2005), and Bianchini (n.d.), understanding cultural circulation not as a simple process of displacement or reproduction, but as a process of translation, appropriation, resignification, and the production of new meanings. The creative process made it possible to problematize relationships among Black culture, the culture industry, pop culture, center and periphery, originality and copying, as well as the ways in which certain embodied knowledges and practices are displaced from their contexts of emergence and incorporated into other circuits of production and consumption. The experience also highlighted the potential of the moving body as a territory of memory, negotiation, and resistance, reaffirming artistic creation as a means of inquiry and knowledge production in dance education.