Makarios Maia Barbosa

This dissertation focuses on the transvestic performances that take place before, during and after the Bloco das Kengas Parade during Carnival in Natal, capital city of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The parade?s spectacularity, as defined by the field of Ethnoscenology, is of great importance. The paper describes the pageant that took place on the 22nd February 2004, taking into consideration occurrences of the parade in previous Carnivals and the event?s social, cultural and historical context, which is analyzed using memorial archives and information collected during interviews and discussions with participants and insiders with a first-hand knowledge of the phenomenon. This research aims to contribute to the field of the Performing Arts, and more specifically to interdisciplinary studies into performance construction. The work begins with a discussion of the cultural matrixes that instigated the Kengas phenomenon, and its politicals and aesthetics constructs, in light of the event?s specific urban and social context. Consideration is given to: Carnival, street festivities, popular theatre, the development of stock characters, characterization and dress, performance, gender diversity, cultural studies and Queer theory. The dissertation re-signifies performatic procedures linked to contemporary theatre (stage and audience) and contextualizes performance in its theoretical function, as a mean of understanding cross-dressing and the way in which these minorities are perceived during the parade. It also serves to clarify the way in which this event promotes and reaffirms gender diversity. The field of Ethnoscenology plays a central role as an interdisciplinary methodological approach that obliges the researcher to define and discuss his/her relationship to the object(s) being observed and as a multireferential mean of approaching many aspects that define the phenomenon.

"Tout coco deviant kenga" - Ethnoscèneologie, performance et travestisme dans le carnaval de Rio Grande do Norte / "Todo coco um dia vira kenga"- Etnocenologia, performance e transformismo no carnaval Potiguar.

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