Currents of Knowledge

the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance

Autores

Palavras-chave:

Santo Daime, Bailado, Ayahuasca, Transcorporeality, Decolonial Dance

Resumo

Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

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Biografia do Autor

Ana Flecha, University of California, Santa Cruz

Ana Flecha é um aluno de doutorado no departamento de Latin American and Latinx Studies na University of California, Santa Cruz na área de ciências sociais. A pesquisa dela esta orientada no Santo Daime bailado e as significações sociais e politicas da coreografia desta prática religiosa Brasileira.

Publicado

2023-07-06

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Flecha, A. (2023). Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance. Revista Brasileira De Estudos Da Presença, 13(3), 1–26. Recuperado de https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128060

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Seção

Dança, Violência e Conflito