The present work results from a historical-ethnographic research about the “circle” of Instituto Ocara’s Circle Dance of People, such as it was used to be practiced in the Instituto de Artes do Pará, in Belém, in the year of 2010. The theoretical references are based, principally, in Anthropology of Dance, Ritual Ethnology, Performance Studies and Anthropology of Expirience, epistemological fields that north the interpretation of this dancing culture. The historical approach (diachronic) describes the cultural matrixes of creation and affirmation of Sacred Circle Dance, in the world and in Brazil; while the anthropological approach (synchronic) analyses and interprets socio-cultural elements and aspects constitutive of the “circle”, identified from the “participating-observation” and from the “observation-participating” of the researcher, in her direct contact with the practical culture.
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