Memory in Nietzshe:

the light of sacred dance history through terreiro communities

Abstract

This article aims to bring sacred dance in Nietzsche's memory and history through communities of terreiros, understood as bodily expressions represented through memory with regard to dance, the body and the touches of Orixá Oxum, as well as the action of remembering, bringing the assumption that memory is also an instance of creation and existence. In addition, to point out how it is possible to think of dance and the body as constitutive elements of Nietzsche's dance and philosophy. Packed by the problem: how does the sacred dance in the candomblé terreiros of the ketu/Nagô nation reflect the moving memory brought by Nietzsche? With this we propose a discussion of Nietzsche's grounded theories that helps us to situate memory in movement through the events that results in the social relations of groups contributed through history, contacts, memories, expressions and memories. As a research methodology, we will search the collection using Nietzsche's theoretical framework and his Dionysian and Apollonian conceptions present in Nietzsche's work: Thus spoke Zarathustra, to think about the relationships of body and dance in the construction of a life of art and the overcoming of man and the destruction-creation relationship between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, discussing the image of the body and dance as a movement of overcoming, opening a perspective on life and the deepest need for affirmation that Candomblé brings together values of different African ethnicities , as a form of resistance, imbued with the desire to teach human beings the meaning of being. In this way, the memories contained in the dance in their bodies incorporated by the Orixás, transmit their mythical narratives, being able to be applied in the spiritual force that contributes to the resistance and survival in the terreiros of Candomblé, for its religious and community (re)signification. even in the face of suffering related to racism and religious prejudice.