COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND ANCESTRAL IMAGES: A PARALLEL BETWEEN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND RITUAL EXPERIENCES
Archetypes; Ritual; Theater; Ancestry, Memory, Collectivity.
In the present study of the theater-ritual, it is understood that theater since its beginnings had ritual (mystical) elements that were always distinguished by the characteristic of making other realities dream or bringing other perceptions to the participants. The experiences that bring the artist closer to altered states of consciousness accompany him since the beginning of artistic representations. The elements on stage, the actor's preparation, the architecture of new spaces, some themes, melodies and symbols, all these incredible elements generate a symbolic space, a place to dream and an atmosphere that brings the sacred essence that belongs to the theater - ritual . The experiences that lead the artist to altered states of consciousness are “a new search for the sacred” of the religious. Ritual and theater maintain the collectivity and images that hold the keys to unlock the door to the ancestral, the spiritual, and archetypal creative forces. It is in the ritual theater, where the ritual itself finds another place of action. Archetypes are studied in theater and ritual, comparing experiences with participants in the Wixarrikas and Ashaninkas rituals and knowing what happens in the actor after exciting his senses and being exposed to the ritual elements of these cultures, hoping that they will reveal to us those geometric shapes harmonics hidden in every atom, thought, feeling or action. Like a spiral that in different dimensions always follows its path, its harmonic contour is the basis of the geometry and mathematics of nature. So, for example, the spiral is a universal archetype present in all expressions of life, hidden in it and born with life. Everything is formed in symbolic spaces, invisible universes manifest themselves; the collective that is generated in the theater-ritual through instinctual or spiritual human emotions makes it perceived by some authors as a place and a way of bringing knowledge and even healing.