Agora eu era, agora eu sou: Poética de encenação com crianças performadoras

Abstract

“Now I was, now I am: the poetics of staging with the performing children” is an interdisciplinary and a multi-referential study in different levels of investigation it focuses on efforts to understand, reveal, resignify, and investigate through the poetic-reflective way, procedures and principles that generate creation which, based on the experience lived, show themselves to be important for doing theater with and for children, an activity that the researcher-educator-artist develops over a 25-year journey: from 1995 to 2020. In this sense, this thesis acquires characteristics of participatory research, with the researcher inserted in the field of her object of investigation. In tracing the proposed poetics of staging,it shows as specific objectives the elaboration of meanings about the subject-children in the psycho-bio physical-cultural dimensions; about art and imagination; and it presents and investigates scenic creation processes with and for children. The spaces-territories of the poetic experiences are analyzed and, in differentiated circumstances, constituted the methodological itinerary, namely: The Vila Velha Theater, the Art Education Center Hora da Criança; the Research Center Moinhos Giros of Art, Culture, and Communication; and the theater group Companhia Novos Novos, the poetic object of the research in the investigation of scenic creative processes with children on stage and in the audience.