Mario Alberto de Santana

• Abstract

  The present investigation intends to reflect upon the discursiveness of the actor on stage in regards to the concept of dialogue coined by the philosophers of the so called Bakhtinian Circle. According to these ideas every word uttered on the scene assumes three distinct and simultaneous components which are: gestural, verbal and of intonation. From the interaction of these components thr…

  The body-word: a study of the voices that compose the discursiveness of the actor, BP.MS

• Abstract

  The object of this research is the Circus Theatre in Brazil, through the establishment of a comparative panorama - focusing on issues related to the performance and interpretation of the actors - including the Pavilion Arethuzza, the company Circus Theatre's most successful early twentieth century and which ended its activities in the 1960s, and Theater Circus little tube, which is one of…

  Circus-Theatre: Scene and Performance - A study comparing Arethuzza Pavilion Theatre and Tubinho Circus, BP.MS

• Abstract

  This project has as its main objective a rereading and an interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics, a fundamental work of the Western aesthetic thought, in order to apply its principles in the exercise of acting. Supported by analogies with other works of Aristotle and by the main modern theories of acting, we want to extract a set of guidelines for the actor. We also aim to contribute in th…

  The poetry of representation: a reading of Aristotle's poetics from the actor's perspective, BP.DR

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