POETICS OF THE ENCRUZILHADA: an analysis of two academic experiments in the light of the worldview of religions of Central African origin in Brazil
Poetics of the Crossroads; Theater; Ancestry
The present work aims to analyze the possibilities of creating narratives from the elements that form the cosmovision of religiosities of Central African origin in Brazil in two scenic experiments developed in the academic research space. The work starts from the analysis and investigation about the elements that form the cosmovision of these religiosities, establishing a dialogue between my experiences in the spaces of the terreiros and the construction of the scene in the Theater. In this path, the work permeates the historical aspects of the formation of these religiosities in Brazil, creating a comparative framework between the perspectives that formed the cosmovision of the Central African peoples on the other side of the Atlantic and the religious practices in Brazilian territory, seeking to understand how they were articulated the resignifications and the ways of creating narratives present in the songs, in the ritual, performative and aesthetic processes of these religiosities. From the result of this first investigation, the perspectives of the crossroads, encompassing the concepts of ancestry and enchantment, emerge as a fundamental element in the construction of these cosmovisions. It is from the understanding of the ways in which these conceptions are articulated in the construction of narratives in the spaces of the terreiro, that the proposal of potentialization of narratives in the construction of scenic experiments is established Kandenge – O cantador de uma história brasileira and Confere, both carried out in the scope of academic research and laboratory experimentation.