The Sacred Dance: a discussion of Bergsonian Memory in motion

Abstract

This article aims to bring sacred dance into Bergosonian memory through communities of terreiros, understood as bodily expressions represented through the materialization of bodies and memory with regard to movement, dance and touch by Oxum. Rocked by the issue of how the sacred dance in the candomblé terreiros of the Ketu/Nagô nation reflects the moving memory brought by Bergson? With that I propose a memory clipping based on Bergson that help us to locate memory in ancestral movements through the events that result in the social relations of groups that contribute through testimonies, contacts, memories, expressions and recollections (re)constructed on a foundation of the dance. As a research methodology, we searched the collection using Bergson's theoretical framework in his current publications. We conclude that memory plays a fundamental role for preservation and also for studies and research of this sacred universe.