O corpo em trânsito entre o teatro e a performance: de Ama à Minha velha

Abstract

This work is part of the research developed in Visual Poetics, in the Master‟s Course in Visual Arts, in the area of Contemporary Art and it is connected to the research Line Art and Culture. The main objective of this work is the body in transit between the Theater and the Performance by shifting a theatrical character built from a dramatic text into the subject of the performative action. That character is the Nurse of the Greek tragedy Medea, written by Euripides. Presents such a starting point for research by understanding the Art of Performance , to focus the artist's body as a work of art , invests in its presence in art through his presentation detached representation of a fictional story , as in the theater conventional and thus causes changes in the treatment of the body in the Visual Arts and Theatre. Thus, the problem exposed was developed with the realization of performances that relied on the inclusion of the Nurse in different contexts. These contexts provoked changes in the actions of this character, which reconfigured her as a character from a dramaturgical text to make her the subject of the performative action with the character called My Old Lady. To carry out the Performances, the actress/performer has made a Pre-Performance, which consisted of two phases: first, with the physical preparation of the actress/performer and second, with the study of the context in which the Performance was held. The reflection of the Performances and the work as a whole led to think that the actress/performer has had the body in transit in the figure of My Old Lady.