Njilas: dance e esqueça suas dores - técnicas e poéticas de encenação e composição da personagem

Abstract

This dissertation is developed in the transition between the theories and practices of acting. It recognizes the possibility to place an important contribution of reflections about methodological foundations of theatrical practice and creation in the singularity of a specific experience. For this, it analyzes the creative procedures used in the composition of the play Njilas: Dance e Esqueça suas Dores inserted in the general context of Laborsatori Teatro theatrical methodology. It also analyzes the creative steps used to compose the character Afoju, played by me and created in the thresholds of art and life. Written by a speech that considers the intimate, chaotic and emotional universe of being an actress, this dissertation presents the poetic and technical intertwining that constitutes scene and character through inevitably interdisciplinary aspects, connecting theatrical studies and anthropology, mythology and psychology. Therefore, some documents were taken as observation sources (sketches, audio-visual records, personal notes) besides my own somatic reactions engaged with the work‘s general methodology, functioning as significant sources of information.