A metodologia DIG de improvisação em “berceuse” de Samuel Beckett: cartas de dança e amor.

Abstract

The Post-Contemporary Theater and Dance Company d’Improvizzo Gang (DIG), in 2003, performed the dance-theater show Berceuse, based on the homonymous text by Samuel Beckett, using its own working methodology: the DIG Improvisation Methodology. The research presents the hypothesis that it is possible to show the process of the structured show through this methodology and by composing a map of the choreographer and performer’s affections and desires. Presenting the company’s methodology and critically analyzing the show’s creative process are the main objectives of this research. It will collaborate with the production of material that reflects on the relationship between improvisation, dance-theater and the work of Samuel Beckett, sharing possible paths of creation in dance and theater. The research is based as a methodology on the cartography suggested by Deleuze (1995) and Guattari (1995) and, to this end, the creation files and documents about DIG and the Berceuse show will be used, as well as an interview with Paulo Michelotto, the company’s founder and co-author of the show. The main theoretical references are: Barthes (1992), Beckett (1991), Fernandes (2000), Guimarães (2012), Genetti (2015), Laban (1978), Lehmann (2007) e Salles (2016, 2011, 2010). As a result, we expect the composition of a map, in which details of the author’s life weave a network of affections and desires, which will lead to the process of creating Berceuse, so that it can serve as inspiration for other artists in the area of Dance, Dance-theatre, Theater and Improvisation.