Media Dances of Mesoamerican tradition:portals between two worlds

Abstract

The dances of the Mesoamerican tradition are organized from a way of understanding the world, they reiterate the validity of the worldview representing their mythical facts through the body in order to harmonize two planes of existence closely related to each other. Relations in time are regulated by the calendar, which marks the festive cycle where dances play a leading role. The space is organized by the idea of community related to a landscape that, together with dance, sustains life and allows historical continuity. Under the concept of work and ritual use of the dancer’s body, dance works, at specific moments and spaces, as a portal between the two levels of the cosmos. In this work, some of our own ethnographic cases and those of other authors are recorded in order to corroborate the analytical proposal that we built by taking up ideas from the work of Alfredo López Austin.