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Offering a model of how to critically engage with interdisciplinary theater in its broader cultur... more Offering a model of how to critically engage with interdisciplinary theater in its broader cultural contexts, Kurahashi's book will attract equally interdisciplinary audiences in theater and performance studies, dance studies, and broader readerships in the field of American Studies.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, Jul 3, 2023

Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca re... more Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2023

RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, r... more RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, religião ayahuasca da Amazônia brasileira fundada em 1930, tem como uma de suas principais práticas uma dança chamada bailado que gera correntes energéticas por meio do balanço coletivo. Os praticantes assumem papéis de espectadores e performer ao dançarem o bailado e se envolvem em um discurso transcorpóreo com vários seres. Com base nos hinos do Santo Daime, na observação participante e em registros pessoais como daimista, neste artigo argumenta-se que o bailado decoloniza a dança de três maneiras: como parte de um sistema de conhecimento caboclo único; através do cultivo de subjetividades coletivas pelos participantes; e ao desafiar as definições eurocêntricas de dança. Palavras-chave: Santo Daime. Bailado. Ayahuasca. Transcorporeidade. Dança Decolonial. ABSTRACT-Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, in this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

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Choreographing re-membrance:The Santo Daime bailado and subjectivities of corpo/realization, 2022

The Santo Daime bailado, a religious ayahuasca dance from the southern Amazon forest, has been tr... more The Santo Daime bailado, a religious ayahuasca dance from the southern Amazon forest, has been traveling throughout Brazil and transnationally for more than four decades. Founded in the early 1930s, Santo Daime is now practiced in more than forty countries, though we know little about its persistent cross-cultural performances. Mobilizing my research through the field of dance studies, I ask what cultural and epistemological values does the bailado choreograph and how does performance of the bailado influence the lives of those who participate. Working with a mixed methods approach, this study will advance my emerging concept of corpo/realization, which I define as the learning practitioners accomplish through dance practices and other forms of kinesthetic engagement. My mixed methods approach for this study combines research into the socio-cultural environment out of which the bailado originated with participant observation and ethnographic study of the experiences of bailado practitioners in a diverse range of Santo Daime centers today. This approach will allow me to investigate knowledge systems from which Santo Daime emerged and how the choreography of the bailado is performed and travels through the bodies of practitioners in different times and spaces. My findings will help bring more sociological legibility to the field of dance studies, and apply concepts of choreography as a source of knowledge and socio-cultural value to theorizations of corporeality in the social sciences.

Papers by Ana Flecha

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2023

RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, r... more RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, religião ayahuasca da Amazônia brasileira fundada em 1930, tem como uma de suas principais práticas uma dança chamada bailado que gera correntes energéticas por meio do balanço coletivo. Os praticantes assumem papéis de espectadores e performer ao dançarem o bailado e se envolvem em um discurso transcorpóreo com vários seres. Com base nos hinos do Santo Daime, na observação participante e em registros pessoais como daimista, neste artigo argumenta-se que o bailado decoloniza a dança de três maneiras: como parte de um sistema de conhecimento caboclo único; através do cultivo de subjetividades coletivas pelos participantes; e ao desafiar as definições eurocêntricas de dança. Palavras-chave: Santo Daime. Bailado. Ayahuasca. Transcorporeidade. Dança Decolonial. ABSTRACT-Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, in this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2023

Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca re... more Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença

Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca re... more Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Offering a model of how to critically engage with interdisciplinary theater in its broader cultur... more Offering a model of how to critically engage with interdisciplinary theater in its broader cultural contexts, Kurahashi's book will attract equally interdisciplinary audiences in theater and performance studies, dance studies, and broader readerships in the field of American Studies.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, Jul 3, 2023

Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca re... more Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2023

RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, r... more RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, religião ayahuasca da Amazônia brasileira fundada em 1930, tem como uma de suas principais práticas uma dança chamada bailado que gera correntes energéticas por meio do balanço coletivo. Os praticantes assumem papéis de espectadores e performer ao dançarem o bailado e se envolvem em um discurso transcorpóreo com vários seres. Com base nos hinos do Santo Daime, na observação participante e em registros pessoais como daimista, neste artigo argumenta-se que o bailado decoloniza a dança de três maneiras: como parte de um sistema de conhecimento caboclo único; através do cultivo de subjetividades coletivas pelos participantes; e ao desafiar as definições eurocêntricas de dança. Palavras-chave: Santo Daime. Bailado. Ayahuasca. Transcorporeidade. Dança Decolonial. ABSTRACT-Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, in this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Choreographing re-membrance:The Santo Daime bailado and subjectivities of corpo/realization, 2022

The Santo Daime bailado, a religious ayahuasca dance from the southern Amazon forest, has been tr... more The Santo Daime bailado, a religious ayahuasca dance from the southern Amazon forest, has been traveling throughout Brazil and transnationally for more than four decades. Founded in the early 1930s, Santo Daime is now practiced in more than forty countries, though we know little about its persistent cross-cultural performances. Mobilizing my research through the field of dance studies, I ask what cultural and epistemological values does the bailado choreograph and how does performance of the bailado influence the lives of those who participate. Working with a mixed methods approach, this study will advance my emerging concept of corpo/realization, which I define as the learning practitioners accomplish through dance practices and other forms of kinesthetic engagement. My mixed methods approach for this study combines research into the socio-cultural environment out of which the bailado originated with participant observation and ethnographic study of the experiences of bailado practitioners in a diverse range of Santo Daime centers today. This approach will allow me to investigate knowledge systems from which Santo Daime emerged and how the choreography of the bailado is performed and travels through the bodies of practitioners in different times and spaces. My findings will help bring more sociological legibility to the field of dance studies, and apply concepts of choreography as a source of knowledge and socio-cultural value to theorizations of corporeality in the social sciences.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2023

RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, r... more RESUMO-Correntes do Conhecimento: o bailado do Santo Daime como dança decolonial 1-Santo Daime, religião ayahuasca da Amazônia brasileira fundada em 1930, tem como uma de suas principais práticas uma dança chamada bailado que gera correntes energéticas por meio do balanço coletivo. Os praticantes assumem papéis de espectadores e performer ao dançarem o bailado e se envolvem em um discurso transcorpóreo com vários seres. Com base nos hinos do Santo Daime, na observação participante e em registros pessoais como daimista, neste artigo argumenta-se que o bailado decoloniza a dança de três maneiras: como parte de um sistema de conhecimento caboclo único; através do cultivo de subjetividades coletivas pelos participantes; e ao desafiar as definições eurocêntricas de dança. Palavras-chave: Santo Daime. Bailado. Ayahuasca. Transcorporeidade. Dança Decolonial. ABSTRACT-Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, in this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2023

Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca re... more Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença

Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca re... more Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance 1-Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.