Performing arts: ancestries, cosmopolitics, spiritualities

Abstract

The sharpening of ecological, political, social, and cultural crisis in Brazil and over the world in the last few years has urged for the renewing of theoretical perspectives and creative devices in the performing arts field, one of the most affected by this situation. It is possible to see the strengthening of the critical thinking on colonial processes, problematizing racism, indigenous genocide, and the multiple violence shapes against minority groups. At the same time not always sufficiently investigated terms, expressions and concepts emerge in the centre of those discussions. They point out to ways of feeling, perceiving, and acting associated to non-hegemonic cosmovisions and forms of spirituality and religiosity, articulating with different dimensions of collective life.