A primeira instituição escolar de dança do Paraná: práticas educativas inseridas em um contexto social

Abstract

Considering the bonds between History of Education and Cultural History, this article assumes that the pioneering dance training course at Thalia Society, in the city of Curitiba, Paraná, Southern Brazil, created by Tadeusz Morozowicz, can be considered a peculiar model of educational institutional training for subjects interested in artistic learning within a sociocultural context strongly influenced by Polish immigrants. This article aims to reflect on the singular educational practices applied by Morozowicz, between the years 1927 and 1956. The qualitative research made use of the methodology of narrative literature review and a close analysis of primary documentary sources. It is concluded that the dance training course at the Thalia Society would be able to satisfy the needs of something that was not being put into the society of Curitiba in the 1920s and that, given that there is no demand for it, the course itself and the institution that welcomes it emerges as a structural and organizational extension, as a kind of singular response to sociocultural expectations of a given time and place.