Sapateia at Macumba Zé: Catimbó dances, dances at the crossroads.
Jurema Sagrada; Crossroads; Dance.
"...Black Jurema, you are the queen, the owner of the city, but the key is mine." What should have been erased in the distant past echoes in the body of those who have the blood of the caboclo, trembling their skin, lowering the arrow in every sacred ground. The ancestral technology of healing avoided its demise and became a religious practice. The Sacred Jurema is a remnant religion of indigenous practices that have been influenced by Afro-diasporic ancestry and Christianity (LIMA, 2019), resulting in a faith of crossroads where, through rituals, signs, and trances, we find the way out of this time, strengthening ourselves in ancestral time. This dissertation is the result of a catimbó for the body to dance, a creative process called BLACK JUREMA, born on the ground of the Terreiro of Ogum Beira-Mar (Cabedelo - PB) and in the depths of my backyard. Collective experiences in the terreiro I belong to, experiences in popular traditions, memories, bodily states, metaphors, symbologies... Here, autoethnography (SANTOS, 2017) and liminality (SILVA, 2020) are some of the methodological paths I embrace to explore my curiosity about bodies that are on the margins. The body of the seaside, of fishing, of the coconut grove, of the gira, of the touch, of the benediction... Those who possess and are marked by the sway of stories and memories, especially those who still carry dance as a fundamental part of their healing processes and connection with their ancestralities. This body is also mine. And I know it.