CORPOS, GESTOS E SABERES ANCESTRAIS: A DANÇA DA POMBAGIRA COMO MANIFESTAÇÃO DE RE-EXISTÊNCIA

Abstract

In the fabric of the sacred present in Afro-Brazilian religions, ancestry is not just memory, but a vital principle, a thread that sews time together and sustains existence. It is at the crossroads that a powerful philosophy arises, built on the pillars of respect, listening and connection. This research on Exus and Pombagiras begins in this territory, figures who, by their very nature, provoke, instigate and, often, destabilize views filled with prejudice and misinformation. To speak of Pombagira is, above all, to cross the veils of ignorance that insist on reducing her power to stigmas. The purpose of this research is to enter this crossroads, to understand what the enchanted corporeality of Pombagira is like, her meanings, symbologies, the corporeality of her dance, the teachings and knowledge that they leave us demystifying the various misconceptions and prejudices that fall upon them in contemporary times. The methodological approach is based on the Dancer-Researcher-Performer (BPI) and the Samborê Methodology. Both offer the necessary tools to transform the scene into a space for the enunciation of the sacred, where dance is not a representation, but a living presence of spirituality. It is at this intersection between art, ancestry and decolonial epistemologies that the work is strengthened. By delving into the ways of being, resisting and existing of Pombagira, what is revealed is much more than a spiritual entity; it is a philosophy of freedom, subversion and confrontation. A pedagogy that refuses to fit into imposed margins, establishing its power of free, desiring, insurgent and ancestral bodies.