The human animal and the body scenic

Author(s)

Eduardo Osorio Silva

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2010-02-25

Examining board members

Veronica Fabrini Machado de Almeida; Renato Ferracini; Rogério Adolfo de Moura; Cecilia Maria Bouças Coimbra; Auterives Maciel Junior

• Advisor: Veronica Fabrini Machado de Almeida

Abstract

The main subject of this research is the actor's work. It is centered in the theatrical experience of the Boa Companhia and its practice with the animal corporeity. The work explores this experience, trying to understand it through the ideas of construction of the scenic body, especially in regard to the spectacles PRIMUS and GALERIA 17. Two concrete and distinct forces are at work in my body while I am working with the animal corporeity. Concrete in their physical aspect: joints, muscles, members, masks; and distinct in their behavioral logic. Through this encounter of two different bodies emerges a third one, a body imbued by the body of the other animal, but also a body disclosing the normalized body that it disturbes. The thesis presented results of an ample dialogue with the ideas of a number of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Benjamin, Foucault, Deleuze e Guattari which have contributed to the critique of the occidental modern society. It is also based in my experience as an actor. This theoretical approach has provided me with the opportunity to study other forms of knowledge beyond the traditional ones at work in the actor's practice. The interdisciplinary idea which characterizes this thesis offers a renovated view of the theatrical practice (AU)