Dramaturgy And City: poetics of the gaze and creative processes

Abstract

This paper, derived from the research developed in O Círculo – Grupo de Estudos Híbridos das Artes da Cena, discusses the concept of corpocidade (body-city) as a theatrical possibility, built from the action and the framing of the gaze. The contemporary urban context emerges as an invitation to transform itself based on presence and performativity. Thus, registering the experiences from and in a body-city configures possibilities to constitute dramaturgies pointing to the eruption of different truths, instead of a single one Focusing on the playwriter (and dramaturgy), who incorporates the city as a trigger for these processes, we present some experiences that can be concrete references, rather than models to be followed, of how this happens in practice. Much is theorized about how we, artist-researchers, can provoke ourselves so that we can awaken potential creative states, and this research invites us to look at the experience in the city as a performative practice.