A noun of the spirit and of all living matter incarnated on earth and perhaps in other reaches of the solar system. From the leaves of plants and herbs to fresh and salt waters, from the ground of candomblé and umbanda terreiros* to the floors of theatres, from riparian forests to the rivers that run beneath us in cities — entity means: everything that evokes presence. To touch mystery, to give matter to the invisible and the unspeakable, to give body to the impossible, to bring to light all lives, from the dinosaurs to the stratosphere, from the forest caboclos to the will-o'-the-wisp, from the warrior joy to the catharsis of struggle — entity is everything that turns and avenges life, be it as apparition or uprising, magic or astonishment, foundation or mystery, dream or settlement. Entity is to have one's head made and in one's heart a seismograph attuned to the seismic tremors of all that shakes. Entity can be very simple — the instant now, time itself, that, she or he or beyond, who holds the sky above our heads. Entity is also what becomes incarnate: they are the horses — be they human, centaurs, or the beautiful animals of mane and hoof — that receive directions, mystery, what cannot be seen. It is the beyond-character, the being-entity, who in the theatre receives the hammer blow of the anvil and the fire of imagination. They are directions, as one says path: destiny.
* Terreiro is a place, temple, ceremonial space where the rites of Afro-Brazilian religious cults are celebrated.
Cafira Zoé and Camila Mota