theater, blindness, looking, phenomenology, spectator.

The hereafter research follows the ellaboration of a theater proposal that had as main component of the scenes the universe of blindness, combining real and fictional reports for the construction of a theater spectacle where its spectators, privated of their vision, are sensorially incited to build the scene from the perception and relations stablished between the scene presented and their lives. Exploring the experience through the senses invites the spectator to be the writer of its own history, relating the scene with its past memories, allowing a sensitive appreciation beyond the looking. This looking, hence, it is built in the body, and then it is this body in its most complete form that, when looks to the scene, relates itself in order to understand it. The nature of this research is qualitative and phenomenological, supported in the studies of the french philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and its interlocutors, where the objective is comprehend the phenomenon of the “non-vision” based in the speeches of the spectators who experienced the spectacle “O que os olhos não veem”, in which configuration proposes a sensitive appreciation, where the spectator, incited by the sensorial propositions, can build through its own path of interpretation an emancipated look for the scene.