Comunicação intra-mundos: um estudo sobre a migração de procedimentos teatrais do Japão ao Ocidente

Abstract

This thesis is a study of the migration of theatre procedures from Japan to the West. The main hypothesis is that the way in which some experiments have tested this displacement has triggered an intra-world communication that cannot be reduced to applied technical procedures, but rather to an openness to otherness. We chose to initially research Noh and Kabuki, which are traditional Japanese theatres conceived in the middle of the XIV and XVI centuries, in Buddhist shrines and Shinto temples. However, rather than generalising them into the category of ‘Japanese theatre’, we chose to consider them as operators for training actors outside Japan and, more than that, as devices for reinventing bodies and imaginative processes. We analysed two programmes conducted in Kyoto, TTT and INI, which were pioneers in opening their doors to foreigners through an intercultural vision, as well as encouraging experiments conducted outside Japan. The methodology proposed for this research is made up of a bibliographical survey and an analysis of theatrical and pedagogical experiments. The theoretical foundation brings together bibliographies written by Brazilian and foreign specialists (e.g. Salz, Greiner, Kusano, Gunji and Ortolani), as well as specific pedagogical methodologies focused on mask studies and unique technical systematisations. As a result, we hope to contribute to discussions about transcultural theatre pedagogies and to communicational studies of the body that affirm its unfinished state as corpusmedia always in motion (Katz and Greiner)