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The Real body in flamenco: The Elf in action

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Author(s):
Cristina Santaella Braga
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
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Examining board members:
Cássia Navas Alves de Castro; Graziela Rodrigues; Juliana Martins Rodrigues de Moraes; Oscar Cesarotto; Carla Andréa Silva Lima
Advisor: Cássia Navas Alves de Castro
Abstract

From the Master thesis (2010) we brought an issue to be resolved, namely the question of the artists¿ geniality, especifically the dancers¿ geniality. What happens when that admirable talent is built on the scene, in this case, in performance? When it comes to flamenco, this issue strengthens in face of the duende¿s mystery in the sense theorized, poeticized and reflected by the poet-writer Frederico Garcia Lorca. Thinking about the intersection between dance and psychoanalysis comes from afar, since our first research (2003) on Carmen, by Mérimée. The concerns that there were born passed to a new stage, now focused on the issue of the duende. Attempts to understand this issue with support on theatrical techniques or methods in dance, both in one and in another case, rather than giving support, worked away from the real focus. Hence, the more the tested paths were revealed, if not inadequate, at least incomplete and deviating, the stronger became the bet on psychoanalysis. After all, the problem of artistic and literary creation has never been a stranger to Freud and Lacan. So to follow this theoretical framework and methodology gradually proved to be promising since as noted by Lorca, "the duende is not in the throat; it rises from inside, from the soles of the feet".This leads us inevitably to something of the order of the impalpable, but at the same time and paradoxically, to the embodiment of realities in the scene. Therefore, the research was necessarily directed toward the theoretical and methodological systematization of what Lacan characterized as the Real. This allowed us to come to the complex but revealing joints about the relationship between dance and psychoanalysis in particular it has allowed us to penetrate the puzzles of the duende in act (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/25214-0 - Barriers and inhibitions to the creative gesture of the flamenco interpreter
Grantee:Cristina Santaella Braga da Hora
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate