The Holy Theater: between ritual and the theatrical phenomenon

• Grant number: 11/02020-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Elisabete Vitória Dorgam Martins
• Grantee: Renata Asato de Camargo
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Artes Celia Helena (ESCH). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This academic project aims to study similarities between the theatrical phenomenon and the concept of holy - delimited from anthropological studies about the ritual processes. Therefore, a concept developed by the anthropologist Victor Turner named "communitas" is going to be studied, in order to be related to the art of theater through the thought of Richard Schechner, an american theater director who has developed a new field of study based on the relations between Turner's theory and theater practice: The Performance Studies. By the experience of these studies, this project will deepen the relations between 'holy' and 'theater' through the proposed work of three artists: Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook.