The actor-performer and the poetics of self transformation

• Grant number: 13/50235-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: April 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Cassiano Sydow Quilici
• Grantee: Cassiano Sydow Quilici
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

It is a selection of essays about the process of formation and training of the, artist that moves between theater and performance art. It questions the notion of training as a mere acquisition of skills to the spectacle. It reflects on artists strategies that include modifications of existential habits, states of body-mind and relational dynamics as a way of triggering creative processes. Finally, it investigates the possible dialogue between performing arts and other cultural traditions that propose transformations of the self, which includes Philosophy of antiquity, Buddhism, etc. (AU)