Writing-body triggers
Writing triggers; Writing-body; Self-writing; Authorial dramaturgy.
This research investigates triggering exercises of writing-body as a way of producing authorial scenic/dramaturgical material. It starts from the concept of "trigger" according to Deleuze (1990), understood as forces that set thought in motion, proposing the elaboration of the notion of body-writing as a writing of the self that emerges from the bodily experience provoked by these triggers. To this end, the study asks: can the writings produced by actors and actresses, based on writing exercises, constitute authorial scenic/dramaturgical material? The methodological approach adopted articulates practice as research (Fernandes, 2010) and cartography (Deleuze and Guattari, 1980), allowing the investigative path to be constructed together with the experimentation of the writing exercises themselves with actors and actresses, in three distinct processes of scenic creation. The study seeks to understand how this writing practice can expand the possibilities of creation in the contemporary scene, especially that focused on authorial work, and to reflect on the place of the actor/actress as also author and creator of the scene.