Cartografias de uma improvisação física e experimental

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the performing arts research which ischaracterized as physical and experimental improvisation within the mode of composition studies. Its cartography, a concept presented by thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, implies opening, connection and multiplicity, both of what is said of the practice-thought itself in which it is done, and of the dialogs which it establishes with other practice-thoughts, be it conceptual or of artistic proceduresthat become available. The research goes through heterogeneous experiences and sources, such as the workshops with visual handicapped children and teenagers, users of the mental health system, and those which took place in drama-education places, including workshops with actors and dancers. Among the research sources,in resonance with the contemporary scenes state of art, well find: the working in progress procedure, destabilizations provoked by artistic avant-garde movements, post-dramatic, physical and experimental theater forms, the performance art and post-modern dance. In terms of conceptual sources, the research uses the tools provided by Deleuze and Guattari in order to provoke and strengthen its practicethought.The experimental and physical improvisation is set up from the followingplanes: body, space, object, time and operative and expressive flow. The expressive materialities, through which improvisation is carried out as well as physically and experimentally made up of, are: movement, action, gesture, image, sculpture and sound. The research is accompanied by exercises which exemplify the physical and experimental improvisation procedures and techniques.