A performance for other worlds

Abstract

In the Amazonian shamanic ritual of Pena and Maracá, the expression "acted" is used when the body in the shaman’s act meets the body of the Enchanted and changes. Charmed, in this ritual corresponds to beings that do not die but become enchanted. And, when they delight themselves, they assume another mode of existence, which can be animal, vegetable or mineral. The "being together" of the Amazonian shaman and the Charmed in the context of the ritual Pena and Maracá moves an imagination and an existence that understands that humans are not hierarchically superior to plants or any other species, Mobilizing an ecosophical wisdom that extends the predicates of humanity beyond the boundaries between species

Considering that the current climate catastrophe arises from the way in which a part of the humans who make up the modern West "live with" the Other, be it this other of its own species or of different species, This article investigates the possible interconnections between indigenous cosmopolitics and scenic policies, as well as taking into account the practice of 'acting' body. The hypothesis is that this articulation potentializes the theatrical and performative arts to be imagined and or Another on Earth. The text brings aspects extracted from studies and field work in the Amazon that compares with southern Mexico, biographical, theoretical and poetic material, derived from the imagination, experience and vocabulary of anthropology and the arts of the scene.