THE AUTONOMY OF ARTIST-RESEARCHERS IN CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THEATRE
Autonomy, Creative Processes, Artist-Researcher
This research aims to investigate autonomy as a tool for creation and research in both solo and collective processes in Theatre. It seeks to understand how the artist-researcher, by guiding themselves, constructs an aesthetic and political path capable of articulating the act of doing and the act of thinking scenically, thus configuring autonomy as a creative, formative, and emancipatory practice within the context of contemporary theatre. The study is organized around three main axes. The first presents a theoretical reflection on the conceptual unfoldings of autonomy in theatrical creation, in light of authors such as Cassiano Sidow Quilici, Mateo Bonfitto, George Holanda, and Jacques Rancière. The second analyzes the creative processes of the performances Seis e Meia and Histórias Fragmentadas de um Eu Fragmentado, developed by me during my undergraduate studies in Theatre, in which autonomy was explored as an axis of artistic experimentation. The third axis includes interviews with artist-researchers Ana Clara Veras and Claudilene Medeiros, who shared their creative experiences in solo work during the Covid-19 pandemic in the course Prática Cênica Integrada, aiming to build a collective dialogue about the formative possibilities of autonomy in theatrical practice.