Notes on Jerzy Grotowski and Maud Robart’s Researches on Afro-diasporic Chants

Authors

  • Luciano Matricardi Universidade Estadual de Maringá - UEM, Maringá/PR, Brasil; Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7781-4710

Keywords:

Haitian Vodou, Transculturality, Theatre of Sources, Work on Oneself, Art as a Vehicle

Abstract

This paper discusses the transcultural investigations conducted by Jerzy Grotowski on traditional AfroDiasporic chants. Based on some notes on the collaboration with the Haitian artist Maud Robart, it argues that these investigations were not aimed at the expropriation of traditional performative knowledge, the emptying of its meanings or the aestheticization of its forms. In its political dimension, as it seeks to delineate, it was a work that had the potential to relativize the usual modes of perception of the individual, especially the modern and western one, towards what could be called a ‘decolonization of the self’.

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Author Biography

Luciano Matricardi, Universidade Estadual de Maringá - UEM, Maringá/PR, Brasil; Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil

Luciano Matricardi is an actor, teacher and theater researcher. He teaches in the Performing Arts course at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM) and has taught in the Performing Arts courses at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) and at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), as well as in the Arts and Cultural Production courses at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). PhD in Performing Arts from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). During his doctorate, he completed a sandwich internship at the Università degli studi di Torino (Italy) with field research at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards (Italy) and participation in the workshop L’esprit du chant (France), with Haitian artist and researcher Maud Robart. 

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Published

2023-10-24

How to Cite

Matricardi, L. (2023). Notes on Jerzy Grotowski and Maud Robart’s Researches on Afro-diasporic Chants. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 13(4). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/129871

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 4 (2023): Out./Dez. 2023

Section

Popular Cultures

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