FROM HUMAN SERIOUSNESS OF PLAYING TO THE IMAGINATION OF THE ACTOR IN FORMATION

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT PLAY AND BODY IN A THEATER SCHOOL IN NITERÓI (RJ)

Keywords: Ethnography, Theater, Play, Body

Abstract

Based on the “work-leisure” dyad, a widely verifiable axis within the theatrical universe, I point out the routine of plays and recreations sessions, as well its pedagogical features for the actor in training. This analysis is the result of a one-year ethnographic experience, initiated in a theater school in Niterói (RJ) from February 2021 to February 2022. The paper points out some concise anthropological considerations about the topics of play, imagination and the body inside the theatrical context. Some native categories (for example, not being afraid of exposing oneself to ridicule and being blocked) added to the classroom setting and the obligatoriness of a student’s black uniform provides the privileged point of view to observe what kind of body is formed in this space, a body that is suitable to imagination.

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Author Biography

João Pedro de Oliveira Medeiros, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Bacharel em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Atualmente, é bolsista da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Brasil) do mestrado acadêmico no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da mesma universidade. Sob a orientação do professor Luiz Fernando Rojo, conduz o projeto de pesquisa intitulado “O Indivíduo no Teatro: do noviço ao ator-personagem, uma possibilidade de contestação pelo corpo?”.

Published
2023-02-11
Issue
Vol. 8 No. 01 (2022): SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: BETWEEN CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISMO
Section
Artigos