The Actor’s Work and the Art of Fictionalising Oneself

Authors

  • Celina Nunes de Alcântara (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil) UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre - RS

Keywords:

Actor, Creation, Fiction, Transformation, Training

Abstract

This article discusses the actor’s work as a possibility of creation and invention of the self. This concept is related to ways of fictionalising oneself, that is, ways to think an actor’s work on themselves as a possible way to project the self beyond artistic creation, even coming to reverberate in ordinary daily life. To support this discussion, we addressed the concepts of ethics, truth, and care of the self, as they are discussed in the work of Michel Foucault and others. Furthermore, we drew from theatre notions of second nature and fictitious body, problematised based on the ideas of Constantin Stanislavski, Franco Ruffini, Eugenio Barba, and Nicola Savarese.

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Author Biography

Celina Nunes de Alcântara (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil), UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre - RS

CelinaNunes de Alcântara é graduada em Artes Cênicas pela Universidade Federal do RioGrande do Sul (1991), mestre (2004) e doutora (2013) em Educação pelaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. É professora adjunta na mesmainstituição, no Departamento de Arte Dramática. É atriz integrante da UTA-Usinado Trabalho do Ator (www.utateatro.com.br), grupo de criação e investigaçãoteatral e pertencente ao GETEPE-Grupo de Estudos em Educação, Teatro ePerformance.

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Published

2022-10-16

How to Cite

Alcântara (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil), C. N. de. (2022). The Actor’s Work and the Art of Fictionalising Oneself. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 3(3), 888–906. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/41986

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2013): set./dez. 2013

Section

Other Themes

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