TORTURAS: um estudo sobre processo de criação, padrão de beleza e teatros feministas.

Abstract

The present research focused on the analysis of a creative process developed in the year 2018 that generated the scenic event torturas. The process was linked to an undergraduate course and focused on two central axes: the standard of female beauty and thinking about sharing it with blindfolded spectators. During the research, I investigated the concepts of body, beauty, gender and intimacy practices. To answer the problem-question, I analyzed the director’s diaries, recording materials developed during the creation process and carried out semi-structured interviews with four performers who built that process with me. Theater has the power to tension and question patterns that are established in our society and that oppress the lives of different groups. There is the possibility of raising reflections in the people who participate in the creation process and in the audience that watches the sharing. This study brings the analysis of a creative process that had this objective and points to possible strategies that can promote such reflections in other processes.