O uso do Tanden no corpo cênico: reflexões sobre a organicidade e prontidão a partir dos princípios e fundamentos do Karatê Shotokan dialogando com as práticas de Jerzy Grotowski

Abstract

In Japanese martial arts, the "Seika Tanden" or just "Tanden" (energy center of the body), is something trained and used daily. Bringing the use of Tanden to the scenic body can enable the actor, dancer, performer, circus and possibly other scene actors to access a psychophysical state, provided by Tanden, little used outside of martial arts. Therefore, the objective of this research is to put into practice a methodology for training the scenic body that, based on the combination of fundamentals, principles and practices of Shotokan Karate and Theater, can, in a pre-expressive field, seek/enable, in the performing arts, access to the presence, power, readiness, spontaneity and organicity of bodies. From the reports of the artists who participated in the training, it is analyzed how this proposal reaches them, what benefits that exercising and activating Tanden promotes and what crossings can occur in everyday life.