Estudio de la noción teatral Cuerpo sin Órganos de Antonin Artaud como herramienta para la construcción de la corporalidad de un personaje escénico

Abstract

The text in Theater has been the driving element for staging, characterization, set design, dialogues, costumes, music, lighting, intentions, etc. The main concern for contemporary theater is to re-signify the body of the actor; turning it into a living text on stage. This thesis analyzes the body and its transcendental transmutations from the acting and shamanic point of view. There will be an explanation in greater detail on how a special corporality emerges from a new body that the actor or the actress develops by being bodily aware of the expressive limits imposed by his social and emotional body; which will be - virtually - emptied and stripped of all their organs.

The subject to be investigated corresponds to the Theatrical Universe of infinite and varied possibilities that Antöine Marie Joseph Artaud, Antonin Artaud, the metaphysicist of the Theater, conceived; and specifically, to the body, its different qualities, regions and corporalities used by each stage character that actors create. As well, I performed an extensive study about the body and body without organs or organless body according to Artaud, but from Gabriel Weisz’ perspective. Weisz is a theatrical anthropologist, expert in corporal philosophy of the Mesoamerican shamanic culture of Nahualism/Tonalism. The physical presence, conformation and the respective corporality of different types of bodies will be thoroughly explored in order to enrich the communicative baggage of the scenic artist, reflecting the body as a vital artisanal medium for transmitting overwhelming and convincing messages to the public with the practical and theoretical support of other authors.