O corpo negro em experiências performativas de Carne e Tudo é Preto!

Abstract

In what way the silencing of black people affects my performative body? Based on this initial question, an affective cartography was constructed. This inquiry has allowed to reach inhabiting areas of theatrical creation.The question presented was answered along the trajectory of the composition of two plays: Carne: uma narrativa sobre a memória (2016) and Tudo é preto! (2021), both plays from Solta Cia de Teatro de Cuiabá, State of Mato Grosso. Starting from the inhabited territories, I was able to construct the cartography which was materialized in this dissertation. This path reflects the desire to broaden the thoughts on the discussions concerning the black body in dialogue with my experiences in the theater.I developed an interdisciplinary investigation of the performative experiences of my black body in constructing black poetics of resistance.The experiences in theater and performance, often use the body as the main tool of creation and work has allowed deviations aimed to emancipatory practices, in which cenary the artist finds space and resonance for propositions that question the hegemonic structures of society. In this context, it is also reflected about the term “black theater” having dialogues with my experiences as a black artist and researcher. I also present the power of theater and the performance as micropolitics. This study was guided by the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Deepening the knowledge about the experience of the black body in theater will enable the construction of verbal material to be shared with actors and actresses interested in the investigation about the subject of the actor as creative power on the production of resistance discourses, as well as, the construction of black poetics.