Envelhecer com cidadania: os impactos socioculturais da dança como ação pública na cidade de Erechim (RS)

Abstract

The increase in life expectancy is one of the concerns of public entities, due to the growth of the senior population. This phenomenon provokes us how much public actions are developed for the quality of life of this group. Legally these aspects are guaranteed by the National Policy for the Senior and the Statute of the Senior, which determine the effectiveness of social policies for an aging withdignity.In this sense, this research seeks to understandhowpublic actions can collaborate in the development of socio-cultural (re)meanings, in the life of people in maturation. Analysis, of the impact of these actions, was made from a field study of a Dance Workshop, as a formative practice that offers opportunities for the (re)construction of citizenship for the seniors. The discussions of this research aim toidentify,analyze and describe the profile, the notes and the reflections, of the senior participants of the Dance Workshop, related to the socio-cultural impacts of thisactivity,for the exercise of citizenship and inclusion of these subjects in the city of Erechim/RS. For this, quantitative and qualitative methods of research were used, among which, we opted for the use of questionnaire and interview, applied through the signature of theTermof Free Informed Consent (TCLE). For data analysis and discussion purposes, we used basic statistics and Laurence Bardin's content analysis method. From this, we identified that the profile of the seniors participants is characterized by: people with 60 years old or more; larger female audience; white skin color; married or widowed; with low schooling and income; with difficulties in understanding and understanding daily issues. In addition, the interdisciplinary posture of this research offered us conditions to build the following categories of analysis: 1) Perceptions, experiences and experiences; 2) Networks and transformations; 3) Contexts and feelings; 4) Learning, socio- cultural insertion, dialogues and experiences; 5) Citizenship - (in)understandings and opportunities.Withthis, we can consider that the Dance Workshop, as a public action, has a significant potential to promote citizenship for the senior citizens, because it offers possibilities of inclusion, social insertion, culture and leisure to subjects forgotten and oppressed bysociety.Moreover, this space of coexistence allows the bodies to become conscious subjects of themselves and the world, exercising the right to say their word, living, feeling and sharing experiences for an active and independentaging.