Corpo, música e cena: tramas de uma experiência no Projeto Pau e Lata

Abstract

This dissertation discusses about the relations between body, music and scene, with the purpose of investigate the corporal preparation of the musician to the scenic performance, emphasizing the perception of the body and the relationship between sound and movement as references for this acting. The focus is a corporal training process with musicians for the scene, that considers the dialogue between the sound and gesture aspects, and which locus research is the Pau e Lata: Artistic-Pedagogical Project. The meetings of Corporal Training and Scenic Creation began in January 2011, twice a week, during about three hours each. Fourteen components participated, but only four were considered collaborators – one woman and three men, aged 19 to 30 years, all members of the Pau e Lata. The meetings were organized with the Theater Anthropology as main reference, besides the musical education studies, already experienced in the Pau e Lata. The research considered as analysis sources the notes in the logbook, made by the collaborators and the researcher; an interview with the components and videos of the musical spetacle Sinfeiria em Três Movimentos, artistic product of the Pau e Lata, resized by the pre expressive training process and scenic creation, experienced in the training meetings promoted by this research. As results of this investigation, it is possible to find that the meetings of Corporal Training and Scenic Creation provided the musicians of the Pau e Lata the perception of the importance of a training based on principles that involve a corporal technique for an expansion of the body in scene in the musical spectacle beyond the everyday posture. The musicians internalized, during the process, the principles and the aspects experienced in the corporal training and these principles became part of the training routine of the group. It is also possible to realize the resizing of the scenic presence of the musicians and the artistic quality of the musical spectacle Sinfeiria em Três Movimentos, with an improvement of the relationship between the sound gesture aspects.