Benza Deus, três vezes no coração: saberes e fazeres das rezadeiras do terreiro Bate Folha como poética de dança afroancestral

Abstract

The research starts from the knowledge and practice of the prayers of the Bate Folha terreiro in Salvador and seeks to reveal how they developed the craft in contact with their experiences of religiosity and faith. I dive as a daughter of a saint, artist and researcher in the environment of prayers with knowledge that guarantee the physical and spiritual health that affects the patient, bringing their cure. In this sense, I value these customs of traditional Afro-Brazilian manifestations in contemporary times, considering several aspects: corporal, plastic, poetic, symbolic, artistic and historical-social. The main objective of the research is to reframe the memories, corporalities and symbolic elements of African-Brazilian aesthetic matrixes, of the terreiro experiences and narratives of the prayer, which crossed me in creative processes in the Afro-star dance poetics Alfazema. A dance that brings movements embodied in memories, crossings and establishes relationships with religiosity, encounters with the sacred, communicating identities and ancestry bodily. Being involved in the day-to-day experiences of the terreiro reveals in this work the crossings of the Candomblé culture of the CongoAngola nation, encompassing aesthetic and cultural diversities, with a focus on memory and ancestry, showing a way of living and thinking in black. Thus, field research, interviews, oral history and practice as research are methodological paths that research has taken over two years.