Abstract
This article presents an anthropological reflection for the performance of Francisca da Silva, better known as Tica, who plays the cultural tradition of the Reisado in the figural of Queen in the Santa Helena group in Juazeiro do Norte, in the interior of Ceará. The interest is to perceive the way in which Tica produces sexual and gender dissidence through the use of the body in the repetition of female performativity and is therefore a way of inventing social existence from the axes of precariousness and vulnerability. In bringing the popular religious manifestation of the Reisado, We try to perceive how the notion of theater as enchantment appears at the moment when Tica incorporates the Queen in the rite, mainly, from the point of view of critical power that the majesty of the giver dignifies the common life from the creative expansion and dance politics in the subversive context of imitation.
Keywords:
popular culture; gender; performance; Reisado