The "Caboclo de lança", a unique figure in the rural Maracatu, turns colorfully, pointing his spear. He represents a warrior of Ogum who attacks the enemy, but also signals the irreverence of the dance: he plays with the revelers in a coming and going of opposite intentions. It is an eternal circular movement that starts out serious and brave, but soon turns into a game, a game that reminds us of the liveliness of the dance itself. The act of turning becomes again a vital signifier, a pulse of life and repetition, producing a dialogical signification with the frontality of the individual understood as identification, vitality, and its reverse, monstrous, whose enormous hair evokes a certain negativity.