Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The proliferation of Western actor training methods in the past century had mainly been derived from the groundbreaking research undertaken by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Constantin Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre, as well as their students Michael Chekhov, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Evgeny Vakhtangov. Poor translations of their original Russian texts have however meant that many of the principles they discovered were compromised due to misinterpretations. Yet, the ‘system’ of Stanislavski, a veritable repository of these theories, served as a template for acting teachers ranging from former American Group Theatre members such as Stella Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Lewis, Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg, and the Polish director Jerzy Grotowski, to formulate their own distinctive techniques. The result has been a challenge to traditional notions of actors as impersonators to a more holistic view of actor-performers; versatile, multi-skilled artists willing to reveal themselves through sincere disclosures to an audience, as the theatre poet Antonin Artaud advocated they should. Although this interrogation of the essential nature of the 2,600 year old art of Thespis was necessary, there is a danger that its core tenets may have been marginalised in the process, a setback which might further delay the formulation of its own science. This research was undertaken to identify the core principles of the actor’s art that distinguish it from the other performing arts, as well as to determine how these might best be conveyed to student actors in a contemporary context. Employing the ‘system’ as a guide, in particular its ‘work on oneself’ process, which refers to an actor’s personal training, as opposed to ‘work on a role’, which relates to characterisation and performance, the theories of the abovementioned practitioners were examined and compared to Stanislavski’s to ascertain if they contributed to the further evolution of the art. Once an integrated theory of training emerged it was then tested in praxis, working with different groups of students during a three year period. This thesis documents the findings of both the literary research, based on an analysis of texts related to actor training, and those derived from ‘real-world’ applications of these theories in an Higher Education environment. A key aim of the study was thus to determine whether a ‘work on oneself’ form of training could be offered in the formal education sector, despite its psychological implications, and how this might be approached in a ‘healthy’ manner. A selection of audio-video recordings done during the empirical investigation accompanies the thesis in order to substantiate its theory. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verspreiding van opleidingsmetodes vir Westerste akteurs in die afgelope eeu het hoofsaaklik ontstaan uit die baanbrekers-navorsing van Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko en Constantin Stanislavski aan die Moskou Kunsteater, sowel as dié van hul studente Michael Tsjechov, Vsevolod Meyerhold en Evgeny Vakhtangov. Swak vertalings van die oorspronklike Russiese tekste beteken egter dat van die beginsels wat hulle ontdek het weens misverstande gekompromiteer is. Tog het die 'stelsel' van Stanislavski, as neerslag van hierdie teorieë, as 'n templaat vir toneelspelopleiders gedien wat wissel van voormalige lede van die Amerikaanse Groep Teater soos Stella Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Lewis, Sanford Meisner en Lee Strasberg, sowel as die Poolse regisseur Jerzy Grotowski, om hul eie kenmerkende tegnieke te formuleer. Die gevolg was 'n uitdaging van tradisionele sienswyses van akteurs as nabootsers tot 'n meer holistiese sienswyse van akteurs as veelsydige, multi-bekwame kunstenaars wat gewillig is om hulself opreg te onthul voor 'n gehoor, soos die teater-digter Antonin Artaud voorgestel het hul moet. Alhoewel hierdie bevraagtekening van die essensiele aard van die 2,600 jaar oue kuns van Thespis nodig was, is daar 'n gevaar dat sy kern-beginsels in die proses gemarginaliseer is, 'n terugslag wat die formulering van die kunsvorm se eie wetenskap verder mag vertraag. Hierdie navorsing is onderneem om hierdie kernbeginsels van die akteur se kuns te identifiseer wat dit van die ander uitvoerende kunste onderskei, asook om te bepaal hoe hulle die beste oorgedra kan word aan student-akteurs in 'n kontemporêre konteks. Deur die 'stelsel' as 'n gids aan te wend, in besonder die ‘werk aan jouself’ proses wat verwys na 'n akteur se persoonlike opleiding in teenstelling met ‘werk aan 'n rol’ wat verwys na karakterisering en performance, is die teorieë van die bogenoemde praktisyns ondersoek en vergelyk met Stanislavski s’n om te bepaal of hul bygedra het tot die kunsvorm se verdere ontwikkeling. Toe 'n geïntegreerde teorie van opleiding te voorskyn gekom het, is dit prakties getoets met verskeie groepe studente oor 'n tydperk van drie jaar. Hierdie tesis dokumenteer die bevindinge van beide die literêre navorsing, gebaseer op 'n ontleding van tekste wat verband hou met akteuropleiding, en die bevindinge wat uit die toepassing van die teorieë in 'n Hoër Onderwys omgewing gegroei het. 'n Belangrike doel van die studie was dus om te bepaal of 'werk aan jouself’ as opleiding in die formele onderwys sektor aangebied kan word, ten spyte van die sielkundige implikasies, en hoe dit dalk op 'n ‘gesonde’ wyse benader kan word. 'n Seleksie van klank-en-video opnames wat tydens die empiriese ondersoek gedoen is, word dus by die tesis ingesluit om sekere teorieë te ondersteun.

This study sought to discover the principles of characterization governing the Sheng and the Dan roles in the Chinese opera. Seven Dan role divisions and three Sheng role divisions were studied. It was discovered that throughout its long history the Chinese opera had adhered to its original singing and dancing styles; that the creative activities involved in the opera's staging were subordinated to singing and dancing styles; that the actors in the Chinese opera perform only one role category in their career; that years of rigid training were required before the actors were allowed to perform on stage; that each role division had its peculiar method of characterization that was shown through their performances, their costumes, and their acting techniques.

Orientador: Marcelo Ramos Lazzaratto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T15:47:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martins_PedroHaddad_M.pdf: 1948104 bytes, checksum: 4f340ca080f183b5b32bf7a4e28351cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A presente dissertação teve por finalidade analisar as implicações da temática metateatral - em que o teatro é colocado como seu próprio objetivo e tema de realização -, dentro de processos pedagógicos em teatro, desenvolvidos com crianças entre 8 e 12 anos, idade em que o pensamento estruturante da cena começa e ser compreendido como um elemento de criação poética. Primeiramente, confrontamos esta prática, desenvolvida ao longo de nove anos, com diversas referências bibliográficas sobre o ensino do teatro publicadas no Brasil, como modo de situá-la e procurando afastá-la do sistema escolar, buscando verticalizar seu estudo. Enfatizamos, assim, o caráter próprio da linguagem teatral, como detentora, em si, de seus elementos pedagógicos. Em seguida, estabelecemos referências teóricas que balizaram a prática, reavaliando-a e ressignificando-a à luz de novos conceitos. Desse modo, o trabalho com a temática metateatral mostrou-se potencializador do desenvolvimento de um aluno-ator consciente da utilização e da combinação de diversos elementos poéticos próprios à cena, atividade lúdica por natureza, que incentiva a prática do jogo e da criatividade, essenciais ao desenvolvimento humano. Apropriamo-nos, então, do conceito de "lugar aprendente", de Jean- Jacques Schaller, para definir o lugar do ensino do teatro. Um lugar criado, determinado e alimentado por um coletivo, e que, em contrapartida, respeita a individualidade de cada um de seus componentes, efetivando o lugar do jogo e da criação poética. Posteriormente, relatamos experiências práticas - analisando-as de acordo com os conceitos discutidos -, realizadas dentro da sala de aula e quando da apresentação de quatro peças pelas crianças, exemplificando o metateatro como parte de uma metodologia pedagógica. Os espetáculos foram colocados como elemento fundamental para a assimilação da linguagem teatral, estabelecendo o público como parte do jogo, momento em que os alunos-atores se reconhecem como construtores dessa linguagem, afirmando-se, portanto, criativos, por meio do fazer teatral / Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the implications of the use of metatheatrical themes - in which the theater is set as its own purpose and theme of achievement - in pedagogical processes developed in theater with children between 08 and 12 years old, age at which the structuring thought of the scene begins to be understood as an element of poetic creation. We first confronted this practice, developed over nine years, with several references published in Brazil about teaching theatre, as a way to situate this practice and to try to push her away from the school system in order to deepen its study. Thus, emphasizing the theatrical language for its characteristics: as a detainer, itself, of its pedagogical elements. Then we set theoretical references to base the practice, reviewing it and redefining it in the light of new concepts. Thus, working with the metatheatrical theme showed that it can potentiate the development of a student-actor aware of the use, and the combination between various poetic elements concerning the scene, a playful activity by its nature, that encourages the practice of the game and creativity, both essential to human development. The concept of "learning place", presented by Jean-Jacques Schaller, was then used to define the place of the teaching of theater. A place created, determined and fueled by a collective, but that respects the individuality of each of its components, effecting the game and the place of poetic creation. Finally we described practical experiments - analyzing them according to the concepts discussed - that occurred in the classroom and in the presentation of four plays with children, exemplifying metatheatre as part of a pedagogic methodology. The plays were placed as a key element for the assimilation of the theatrical language, establishing the public as part of the game, the moment where student-actors recognized themselves as builders of this language, asserting themselves, therefore, as creative individuals through the experience of doing theatre / Mestrado / Artes Cenicas / Mestre em Artes

Orientador: Renato Ferracini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T22:18:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Possani_MariaAlice_M.pdf: 1210685 bytes, checksum: a515441da6d7e415f7a9ce1f23721036 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Essa dissertação tem como eixo principal as reflexões sobre o treinamento de ator (ou trabalho do ator sobre si) a partir do encontro entre o referencial conceitual do Projeto Temático Memória(s) e Pequenas Percepções e a minha experiência artística e pedagógica. O referido Projeto Temático é coordenado por Renato Ferracini, também orientador deste mestrado. Busquei pistas para pensar o treinamento principalmente nas falas de atores que trabalham com Eugenio Barba, atores do Lume e do Matula Teatro, grupo ao qual pertenço. Também em textos escritos deixados por Stanislavski e Grotowski, atravessando-os pelos referenciais conceituais que orientam o Projeto Temático, dentre os quais destaco a ideia de memória como criação, ou recriação em tempo presente, e as micropercepções como um território potente para o trabalho do ator. Destaco ainda que muitas das reflexões sobre o treinamento surgiram a partir da prática pedagógica: na experiência do ensino, a necessidade de revisitar minha trajetória pessoal, a fim de tornar visíveis os rastros do caminho percorrido. Assim, essa pesquisa incluiu uma orientação em treinamento para atores da Cia Cupim, grupo formado por ex-alunos de uma Escola de Teatro em que leciono / Abstract: The main focus of this dissertation is to discuss the effect on an actor's training (or the actor's work upon him- or herself) from the meeting between the Thematic Project Memory/ies and Small Perceptions' conceptual reference and my artistic and pedagogic experience. This Thematic Project is coordinated by Renato Ferracini, who is also the tutor for this master's degree. I searched for clues to think about training specifically about the speech of the actors that work with the Eugênio Barba, Lume and Matula Teatro (the group with whom I work) actors. I also searched in texts by Stanislavski and Grotowski, going through them with reference to the main concept of the aforementioned Thematic Project, namely the Idea of memory as creation, or recreation in present time, and the micro-perceptions as a keen area for the actor's work. Throughout the dissertation, I highlight that many of the reflections on the training emerged from the teaching experience and revisiting my own personal trajectory as an actor. This research then includes an actor's training orientation for the Cia Cupim, a theater crew formed by ex-students of a theater school where I teach / Mestrado / Artes da Cena / Mestre em Artes da Cena

São visíveis as necessidades de ocupação dos espaços de visibilidade na instância pública dentro da sociedade espetacularizada. A partir dessa premissa, a presente pesquisa, realizada na Oficina de Atores Nilton Travesso, busca pensar as possíveis contribuições de uma metodologia baseada nas aprendizagens existentes nas práticas simultâneas de atuação e fruição da cena adotadas na formação profissional dos estudantes. Esses experimentos foram fundamentados nos recentes estudos da recepção teatral, que no atual contexto surgem como possibilidade de equacionar os entraves relativos à experiência dos alunos como espectadores do fenômeno cênico e como autores de suas próprias escolhas. / It is noticeable the need to occupy spaces of visibility in the public spheres in the society of the spectacle. Using the former premise as a starting point and the Oficina de Atores Nilton Travesso as its space of research, this paper aims at thinking about the possible contributions of the methodology based on the present learning of simultaneous practices of acting and enjoyment of the studied scenes in the professional formation of the students. These experiments were based on recent studies of theater reception, which in the current context come up as a possibility to evaluate the difficulties related to the experience of the students as spectators of the scenic phenomenon and as subjects of their own choices.

São visíveis as necessidades de ocupação dos espaços de visibilidade na instância pública dentro da sociedade espetacularizada. A partir dessa premissa, a presente pesquisa, realizada na Oficina de Atores Nilton Travesso, busca pensar as possíveis contribuições de uma metodologia baseada nas aprendizagens existentes nas práticas simultâneas de atuação e fruição da cena adotadas na formação profissional dos estudantes. Esses experimentos foram fundamentados nos recentes estudos da recepção teatral, que no atual contexto surgem como possibilidade de equacionar os entraves relativos à experiência dos alunos como espectadores do fenômeno cênico e como autores de suas próprias escolhas. / It is noticeable the need to occupy spaces of visibility in the public spheres in the society of the spectacle. Using the former premise as a starting point and the Oficina de Atores Nilton Travesso as its space of research, this paper aims at thinking about the possible contributions of the methodology based on the present learning of simultaneous practices of acting and enjoyment of the studied scenes in the professional formation of the students. These experiments were based on recent studies of theater reception, which in the current context come up as a possibility to evaluate the difficulties related to the experience of the students as spectators of the scenic phenomenon and as subjects of their own choices.

Orientador: Rubens Jose Souza Brito / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T11:26:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Doria_RobertoRodriguez_M.pdf: 10788175 bytes, checksum: 584dfd87e2b95ad594052728b9c20c8d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O texto que constitui este trabalho é uma reflexão teórica sobre processo criativo através da máscara desenvolvida com os atores da Companhia Teatral Nosconosco do Rio de Janeiro. Este trabalho parte de uma experiência prática na construção de um espetáculo teatral e seu desenvolvimento criativo com objetos de uso cotidiano que levam o ator ao estado da máscara e sua reflexão teórica / Abstract: The text of the present work is a theoretical reflection about the creative process through the mask, developed with actors from the Companhia Teatral Nosconosco, from Rio de Janeiro. This work starts from a practical experience in a play making of using daily ordinary objects that take the actor into the mask state and its theoretical reflection / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes

Orientador: Marília Vieira Soares / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T15:18:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cippiciani_IranidaCruz_M.pdf: 6391076 bytes, checksum: 8e36d233f3e3ace0eae7ee4d908c58a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta dissertação estuda o conceito e a técnica do Abhinaya, elemento expressivo presente nas formas de dança-teatro indianas, investigando suas possíveis contribuições para a formação e treinamento de atores, bailarinos e performers contemporâneos. Para tanto, inicio este texto estudando o tratado mais relevante sobre o assunto: o Natyasastra, cuja autoria remonta ao sábio mítico Bharatamuni. Trata-se de uma compilação produzida entre os séculos IV a.C. e II d.C., na qual estão descritas as regras para a criação artística nas mais variadas linguagens, incluindo a linguagem dramática, cujo alicerce é a técnica do Abhinaya. Este é composto por quatro grandes grupos de treinamento: Angika (aspectos corporais), Vachika (aspectos discursivos), Aharya (aspectos plásticos/visuais) e Saatvika (aspectos psicofísicos).Meu ponto de partida são os capítulos 6, "The distinction between Sentiment and Emotional Fervour", e 7, "Exposition on Bhavas (Emotional Tracts and States)", em que estão descritos os conceitos de Bhava (estados emocionais) e Rasa (sentimento estético), fundamentos da teoria estética hindu e, em decorrência, da referida técnica. Todas essas informações se unem à experiência pessoal da autora com a técnica, delimitando o tripé que sustenta esta pesquisa: fundamentação teórica, treinamento e produção artística / Abstract: This dissertation is dedicated to the study of the concept and technique of Abhinaya, the expressive element present in all dramatic Dance forms of India, by investigating its possible contributions to the formation and training of contemporary actors, dancers and performers. These aspects are classified in four large training groups: Angika (physical aspects), Vachika (discursive aspects), Aharya (plastic/visual aspects) and Saatvika (psychophysical aspects). Therefore, I start this text studying the most relevant treatise on the subject: the Natyasastra; whose authorship goes back to the mythical sage Bharatamuni. This is a compilation produced between centuries 4 BC and 2 AC, where many of the rules for artistic creation in all the artistic fields are described, mostly about Dance and Drama. My research focuses on the chapters 6 "The distinction between Sentiment and Emotional Fervour" and 7 "Exposition on Bhavas (emotional tracts and states)", where the concepts of Bhava (emotional states) and Rasa (aesthetic pleasure) are described, composing the central part of the Hindu Aesthetic Theory. Such information allies the personal experience of the author with the technique, delimiting the tripod that supports this research: theoretical basis, training and artistic production / Mestrado / Teatro, Dança e Performance / Mestra em Artes da Cena

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