Na Manha
Introduction
Na Manha (Swagger) is an original dance performance exploring masculinity, gender, and ways of life, and was choreographed as the result of a collaboration between the Passinho Carioca dance group and the GlobalGRACE Project.
Current Binks Hub Research Fellow Jimmy Turner worked from 2017-2021 on the GCRF GlobalGRACE Project, which investigated Gender Equality through artistic and creative methods with partners in Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa and the UK. Jimmy’s colleagues in Brazil staged a series of three artistic residencies. These explored questions of masculinity with artists based in and around Complexo da Maré in the north of Rio de Janeiro.
The second of these residencies took place in early 2020 in collaboration with the ‘Passinho Carioca’ dance group, with the Brazilian researchers participating in a series of workshops with the dancers. Through these workshops they developed, choreographed, researched and performed an original dance performance entitled Na Manha (Swagger). This twenty minute film of the piece was filmed at the Arena Carioca Dicró in Penha, Rio de Janeiro, and is also available on Youtube here.
Project aims
To investigate ‘Decolonizing knowledge and rebuilding masculinities through art: culture of equality in Rio de Janeiro’s urban peripheries’, focusing on the intersection between art and gender in order to produce equitable and non-violent masculinities in urban peripheries.
Project dates: January – April 2020
Outcomes & legacy
In addition to the film, the team produced a booklet entitled Masculinities, Art & Potencies from the Periphery which details the process of developing, staging, and generating impact from the residency. It is free to download here.
The people involved
Jimmy Turner works with the Binks Hub team to develop participatory research using artistic and creative methods. An anthropologist focusing on Intersectional Gender Studies, they have most recently collaborated with Brazilian academics, NGOs, and artists to investigate ‘Masculinities Otherwise’ in Rio de Janeiro through graffiti, dance and contemporary art.
Partners included:
- Dance Companies:
- Passinho Carioca
- Coletivo Mulheres ao Vento (Women in the Wind Collective)
- NGOs:
- Instituto Promundo;
- Instituto Maria e João Aleixo;
- Observatório de Favelas
- Universities:
- PUC-Rio Instituto de Relações Internacionais
- Goldsmiths, University of London
GlobalGRACE was funded by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) programme Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) under grant reference AH/P014232/1.
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