The old body: practices and knowledge of the elderly in the teaching of dance in candomblé.
Body, Ancestrality, Dance Teaching, Ethnic-Racial Relations
The work has as objective, it presents horizons for a dance teaching crossed by fundamentals of racial ethnic relations that do not have black ancestry, taking as a starting point and observing the relationship of candomblé with the old bodies and the author's experiences in the Matamba Tombeci terreiro Neto, located in the city of Ilhéus. It proposes us to discuss the body and ancestry project at Candomblé and the presentation of an artistic process of a dance performance developed through the experiences inside the Terreiro. Through the analysis of the dual sensation / body and reason / soul in the West, in which the body was conceived several times with a negative exposure bias, in the adventures in the investigation of the body within the Afro-religious space, where it appears as a point of saber convergence that intercepts both sensitivity and spirituality and the flavors of Vicência and everyday and metaphysical experience. We start from the concept of writing, coined by Conceição Evaristo, to execute your skills of perception of your own body within Candomblé, to develop a creative process in dance that aims to point a dance teaching to ethnic-racial relations.