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Attempting the impossible: the art of conjuring as poetic material of the theatrical scene

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Author(s):
Ricardo Godoy Harada
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:
Veronica Fabrini Machado de Almeida; Evaristo Eduardo de Miranda; Alice Kiyomi Yagyu; Cassiano Sydow Quilici; Antônio Fernando da Conceição Passos
Advisor: Veronica Fabrini Machado de Almeida
Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to study and develop a singular theatrical poetic, based on the articulation between the art of conjuring and theatre. Both are independent and complexes forms of arts, with inner characteristics that are incompatible when brought together. The first part of this research presents the genesis and the specificity of the art of conjuring by identifying its recurrent specific traces. After establish the specificity of both arts, we analyse the status queastionis of the proposition, regarding the mixture of procedures from the art of conjuring and theatrical art. Its not possible to establish a general theoretical answer to the problem presented by this research. Only by the analysis of singular cases, based on the concepts established on the first part of the thesis, is possible to contemplate the multiple dynamics and potentialities of the proposition. The singular poetical approach of the author is taken as case of study, being analysed by a descriptive method. This new form of performance, product of the mixture of conjuring and theatre is possible only because of the approach of its author, regarding the finality of his art: its not entertaining by creating effects of impossibilities, but provoke the aesthetical arrest in the spectator. In this new proposition, the theatrical scene is not a space of representation anymore, but is presented as symbol it self (AU)

FAPESP's process: 10/06298-3 - The art of conjuring as poetical material of the theatrical scene
Grantee:Ricardo Godoy Harada
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)