O corpo zero e as noções de energia e presença no corpo do ator no ponte dos ventos

Abstract

This research proposes an ontological study of the theatrical body - corpus sui generis-, from which the whole process of building a scenic poetics is born. This proposal encompasses and frames the notion of corpus Zero, based on the author’s long-term experience of the Training of the multicultural theatre research group The Bridge of Winds, founded by Danish actress Iben Nagel Rasmussen of Odin Teatret, which is articulated through the recording and analysis of the group's practices. corpus Zero acts as an analogy for the territory in which the immanence of the living human body is located, and for how this primeval body functions as the locus that the actor appropriates to build a poetic state of being. To this end, the concept of energy is analysed in depth, through connections to the hard sciences, phenomenology, philosophy and the theory of artistic analysis and production, in order to investigate how this corpus Zero can be recognised and cultivated. In terms of this process of cultivation, energy is related to effort, it is movement, and (embodied) knowledge, which enhances the presence of the actor's body, transforming it into a poetic entity.