Life a cabaret: a obra dos Dzi para além das lentes do cinema

Abstract

This thesis aims to study the theater group Dzi Croquettes (1972 to 1988), who in the 1970s brought to the scenes of Brazil and Europe a transgressive scenic proposal, putting in suspension the categorizations of gender and sexuality. Taking as a starting point the analysis of the documentary Dzi Croquettes (2009), by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez, the study proposed here seeks, firstly, to analyze the image constructed about the group after almost 40 years of the end of its activities, as well as the way in which the thesis created by the said directors becomes a parameter for telling the story of the Dzi. Once this is done, he turns to the process in order to first understand the way in which the Croquettes' spectacles have been elaborated: what are the aesthetic options, their themes and how they are materialized on the stage. Once this was done, it was observed how the scenic proposal can meet an expectation horizon existing in the early 1970s, which contributes greatly to the almost immediate success of its work. From the questions raised, it became possible to perceive how the reception of the spectacles delineated the places that, in fact, the trajectory of the Dzi Croquettes has been told in the last 40 years. Thus, understanding the theater as a historical phenomenon, one can perceive that the traces left directing the later writing on the scenarios.