O processo de criação como metodologia: a sala de aula de estudos corporais para o ator

Abstract

The actor’s corporal practice, in the scope of bachelor courses in Theater, has its privileged place in disciplines aimed at corporal training, which are part of the curriculum of such courses in Brazil. Dances, somatic practices, eastern trainings, corporeal mimesis, dramatic corporal mime, circus techniques, pre-expressive practices, capoeira and experiences from the tradition are recurrent sources in the development of corporal trainings for Theater students. We have noticed the necessity of linking corporal trainings to the creation process of the scene itself. In this article, we present a report and the questioning of the teaching experience in the process of gestural creation, as part of the corporal training starting from what we denominate “narratives of the self” for the composition of a theatrical scene in the scope of Body Studies classroom in the bachelor course in Theater of School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Minas Gerais. Aiming at promoting the reflection regarding the process of creation as a methodology, we resort to the analysis and the interpretation of professor’s notebooks records and to the recollection of the discipline Body Studies. Starting from the narratives of the self, the students mapped situations they experienced and they embodied recollections into scores of movements. The creation process, composed by experimenting and mapping, revealed the necessity of the willing presence of the students and of the professor’s work with the not knowing.