Body that do, feel and think: creative process and Bergsonism

Author(s)

Marcia Cristina Baltazar

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2010-01-29

Examining board members

Sara Lopes

• Advisor: Sara Lopes

Abstract

Starting from the experience of a personal creation of the play TANTAS OUTRAS QUANTAS, a solo based on research methods from LUME theatre, this research intends do produce an analysis about the flux of body and mind during the creational experiences and about the conditions that display this flux. The intention is to respond the following questions: - What were the relations between doing, feeling and thinking during improvisations, codifications, production and publications of this play? - In times of discussion about the pos-dramatic theater, the comprehension of what my body does and the sense of the play, is not the virtuality somehow being brought up-to-date and becoming aware of the body? The reflection about body&mind's connection during an artistic experience dialogs with the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and also with José Gil and Gilles Deleuze. So, in such parallel between art and philosophy, we analyze - the creation of unusual actions in Ínterim Group (a research group in actions and voice) - the period of interviews and codification of "corporeal mimesis" - the creation of the actress's choreography - the assembling accomplished by four artists and the public presentations of the play (AU)