Memória coletiva e imagens ancestrais: um paralelo entre as artes cênicas e as experiências rituais

Abstract

In the present study of ritual theater, we understood that the theater since its beginnings had ritual (mystical) elements that were always distinguished by the characteristic of making other realities dream or bringing other perceptions to its participants. The experiences that bring the artist closer to altered states of consciousness have accompanied him since the beginning of artistic representations. The elements in the scene, the preparation of the actor, the architecture of new spaces, some themes, melodies and symbols, all these incredible elements generate a symbolic space, a place to dream and an atmosphere that brings the sacred essence that belongs to the ritual. The experiences that lead the artist to altered states of consciousness are “a new search for the sacred” of the religious. Ritual and theater maintain the collectivity and the symbolic images and forces that preserve the keys to open the door to the ancestor, the spiritual and the archetypal creative forces. It is in the ritual theater, where the ritual itself finds another place of action. Archetypes are studied in theater and ritual, comparing the researcher's personal experiences in the Wixarrikas rituals and in the Arkhétypos Theater Group. In this way, we seek to discover what happens in the actor after exciting his senses and being exposed to the ritual elements of this culture, hoping that they reveal to us the poietic nature of the harmonic geometric shapes hidden in each atom, thought, feeling or action. Like a spiral that in different dimensions always follows its path, its harmonic contour is the basis of the geometry and mathematics of nature. So, for example, the spiral is a universal archetype present in all expressions of life, hidden in it and born with life where the whole universe dances. Everything is formed in symbolic spaces, invisible universes (mundus imaginalis) that are manifested in the ritualistic act. Finally, the collective that is generated in ritual theater through instinctive or spiritual human emotions makes it perceived by some authors as a place and a way of taking the knowledge of being to the depths, including healing in this process, the decoloniality of the imaginary, exchange, cohesion and social transformation.