Dialogues between tradition and contemporaneity in the Jongo Mamulengo creation process

Jongo Mamulengo was created in 2016. It is a partnership between Bonobando Collective, Jongo da Serrinha and Cordao do Boitata. On stage are jongo, samba and mamulengo, assets of Brazilian cultural. The narrative traverses several stories of jongo in the Serrinha favela and its relation with the foundation of Imperio Serrano in 1947. To understand the creative processes in Jongo mamulengo it is necessary to observe the interplay between the ritual and cosmological dimensions of the actions and representations of mamulengo as a whole. It chose to emphasize the forms, devices, strategies and techniques present in mamulengo. One of the keys to this conception is the notion of brincadeira (game).