Body and Ancestry: A multicultural proposal for art-dance-education

Within the boundaries of this work, the aim has been to draw up a proposal on dance-art education, seeking to recover aesthetic and mythical elements present in African-Brazilian tradition as a collective creation. The specific experience involves the theoretical and practical knowledge experienced in the mythical universe of the Batá drum among the Yoruba in Nigeria and their descendants in Brazil; then this experience led to the production of a poem and staging of “Ayán: Symbol of Fire,” the result of which offered the basis for a methodology in the unfolding of multicultural educational experience and the construction of individual identity.