The Meisner Technique emerged as a part of the realist, modern theatre of the early-Twentieth Century and extended its influence through the rest of that century, including the 1960s and 1970s when there was an explosion of various forms of postmodern performance. This work will demonstrate that while Meisner’s Technique is a part of the paradigm of modern, realist theatre, it simultaneously challenges this ideology with disruptive processes of the sort that postmodern performance instigates. It is the thesis of this work that the Meisner Technique operates according to a set of phenomenologically-aligned imperatives that create strong resonances with certain forms of postmodern performance. This establishes the dynamic wherein the Meisner Technique is able to enter into discourse with instances of the postmodern paradigm of performance. In the first three chapters I will conduct in-depth analyses of Meisner actors’ relationships with their environment, their fellow performers, and their actions from a range of phenomenological perspectives. In the fourth chapter I will apply the conclusions of these analyses to the operation of the Meisner Technique within the paradigm of modern, realist theatre. In the fifth chapter I will set a backdrop to the postmodern field and suggest the issues from this tradition with which the Meisner Technique might resonate. Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight each take one example of an artist from the postmodern field, Richard Foreman, Michael Kirby, and Robert Wilson respectively, establishes their own particular context, and suggests those processes relating to acting/performing technique that might provoke the most productive exchanges. This juxtaposition suggests the places between the practices where discourse might take root and suggests the beginnings of such dialogues.

Submitted by Glauber Assunção Moreira (glauber.a.moreira@gmail.com) on 2018-08-24T16:53:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Emerson Almeida PPGAC 2015.pdf: 10306725 bytes, checksum: 2f3f53af78606022beae5445c26d2ae7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marly Santos (marly@ufba.br) on 2018-08-24T18:24:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Emerson Almeida PPGAC 2015.pdf: 10306725 bytes, checksum: 2f3f53af78606022beae5445c26d2ae7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T18:24:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Emerson Almeida PPGAC 2015.pdf: 10306725 bytes, checksum: 2f3f53af78606022beae5445c26d2ae7 (MD5) / Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar e apresentar possibilidades que facilitem a consciência corporal do ator para o desempenho da cena, apoiando-se nos conceitos da anatomia e da cinesiologia. Parte-se do pressuposto de que o ator, ao conhecer a sua estrutura orgânica, estimula a sua percepção corporal e a consciência dos movimentos necessários à criação do papel. No campo das Artes Cênicas a pesquisa se apóia na ideia de proporcionar o treinamento do ator por meio de técnicas corporais que o levem a ampliar o conhecimento de si próprio para atingir prontidão necessária à encenação e tem como eixo o trabalho das ações físicas e como referências o Método das Ações Físicas de Stanislávski, o Teatro Laboratório de Grotowski e a Antropologia Teatral de Barba. Além das referências e cruzamentos teóricos a pesquisa é caracterizada como estudo de caso com enfoque descritivo, de abordagem qualitativa, uma vez que discute e questiona, por meio de relatos de atores e experiências práticas realizadas em salas de ensaio, se a inserção de conteúdo relativo ao construto orgânico do ser humano no contexto da preparação corporal, sob o ponto de vista da anatomia e da cinesiologia, com o suporte do Pilates e da Reeducação Postural Global (RPG), pode propiciar o ator a acessar a consciência corporal no intuito de facilitar o processo de composição das ações físicas na construção de um papel. / This thesis aims to analyze and present possibilities to facilitate body awareness actor for the performance of the scene, leaning on the concepts of anatomy and kinesiology. It starts from the assumption that the actor, to know its structure, stimulates your body perception and awareness of movements needed to create the role. In the Performing Arts field the research is based on the idea of providing the actor's training through body techniques that lead to increase the knowledge of himself to achieve readiness needed for staging and its axis is the work of physical actions referenced by Method of Physical Actions of Stanislavsky, Grotowski Laboratory Theatre and the Theatrical Anthropology Barba. Beyond references and theorists cross the search, characterized as a case study with a descriptive and qualitative approach, discusses and questions, through reports of actors and practical experiments carried out in rehearsal rooms, if the inclusion of content related to organic construct the human body in the context of preparation, from the point of view of anatomy and kinesiology, with the support of Pilates and Global Postural Reeducation (RPG), may provide the actor to access the body awareness in order to facilitate the composition process of physical actions over the development of a scenario.