The architecture of desire: Spatial grammars of lesbian socializations / Andrea Lacombe

A. Lacombe

This article will describe the use of space in the bailes da Mary (Mary's dances), held at the Olímpico Club, located in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Through this dance, it is possible to reconstruct the grammars of socialization of lesbian women in the context of a space of entertainment. The importance of analyzing the spatiality and architecture of the site is related to the notion of the "construction of space", which occurs in a dialectical relationship with grammars of socialization: the "who" and the "how" depend on the "where". And the "where" contains a public whose use of the space invests it with certain eanings.