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By following the life of lines and considering them, like Tim Ingold, as practices of correspondence, this article proposes to weave these lines with a few others, launched by Donna Haraway and Isabelle Stengers. Drawings, paintings, films and animations are some of the means by which is rehearsed a graphic anthropology or anthropology “by means of design,” as proposed by Ingold. In this essay of speculative fabulation, taking as a starting point the work of Ilana Paterman Brasil and her meeting with Maria Eni Moreira, a member of a “terreiro” at the north suburnban area of Rio, line are considered as alliances or practices of correspondence. The artist articulates art, design, film, motion graphics and participant observation to animate traditional dances of candomblé. Within this work, the authors reclaim the necessity to experiment other means for design research, with both anthropology and those who the university aims to move away and forget.