Cara da Mãe: a journey of creation through Mitodologia em Arte
Life experiences; Hero’s Journey; Mitodologia em Arte; Cara da Mãe.
Between the desire of tell the history of her ancestors and her mother through the dance and the theater, Janaína Gomes got pregnant of Lótus, her son. During the same time/space, two other artists - Ana Luiza Bione and Íris Campos, also pregnants, were invited by Janaina to join in the process and together they founded the theatrical group call “Coletivo Cênico Tenda Vermelha”, in the City of Recife- PE, in the year of 2012. The search for a self-writing based on the maternal experience of each artist-creator of this group made the encounter with the “Mitodologia em Arte” a 'path of the creation process', a way of transport to the scene the experiences lived by the artists and also the contact with other group (collective) of mothers. The “Mitodologia em Arte” was created by the PhD. Professor Luciana Lyra from her studies on “Antropologia do Imaginário” by Gilbert Durand (2012) and the “Antropologia da Experiência” captained by Victor Turner (1986), it’s a complex of scenic creation that deals with personal forces that moves the actor in relation to himself and the sense of otherness, in constant feedback (2010). The present dissertation aims to unveil the investigative plot undertaken by Janaína Gomes and the “Coletivo Cênico Tenda Vermelha” through the ‘mitodologia” path, which ended up in the performance “Cara da Mãe” (2015) directed by Lyra. Written in an autobiographical (JOSSO, 2009), and performatic (LYRA, 2010), this dissertation still takes the hero's journey (CAMPBELL, 2007).