Contribuições da dança circular sagrada para a educação ambiental

Abstract

This research has as subject the relations between Sacred Circular Dance in Santa Maria and the Environmental Education. The type of research is participant observation, documentary and bibliographic review. The Sacred Circular Dance (SCD) gets its name from the Prussian dancer Bernhard Wosien, in mid-20th century, whom was its great founder. The SCD movement would spread around the world throughout popular dances from traditional communities to elaborated choreographies by Wosien, which will reach the present days through in numerable unfoldings. Among the guidelines of the Sacred Circular Dance are: the pursuit for the totality of the being, the communitarian spirit and the self-knowledge. This current inquiry shows the development of the Sacred Circular Dance in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, throughout the group that is consolidated in the beginning of 2014 which starts to develop actions and classes closely related to the SCD in Santa Maria and, specially in the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). Such group Will be managed by the professors Deisi Sangoi Freitas, Caroline Castro de Mello and Raquel Bernardi Kurtz. Therefore, the problem of this research embodies in pondering about the approaches between emanated practices and experiences of the Sacred Circular Dance and the necessities of the Environmental Education here understood through out the conceptions used by this research. The research sought to bring the dialog theoretical-practical these two major themes: Environmental Education and dances, from the theoretical approach of Edgar Morin, Enrique Leff e Bernhard Wosien.