Abstract
ABSTRACT This article discusses the psychophysical processes of the actor from a laboratory practice developed with the Arkhétypos Group. The exposition presented is the result of the meeting of two researchers, one from the Performing Arts area and the other from Physiology, generating an interdisciplinary discussion about the Ritual Theater. This article analyzes two creative processes experienced by the authors and proposes an approximation with the theory of transient hypofrontality. The methodological approach is based on the anecdotal evidence and a rigorous bibliographic study. The partial results of the research help us understand what happens to the cerebral physiology of the actor who enters the ritual play.
Highlights
This article was born from the meeting between two researchers from two fields of knowledge and two different types of knowledge that have coordinated and continue to coordinate based on the artistic practice conducted within the sphere of the UFRN Arkhétypos Theater Group1
The Ritual Theater worked in the Arkhétypos Group is constituted as a collective, ceremonious, symbolic and performing act carried out before and with the audience, which becomes a witness of the ritualistic action: “Ritual Theater is an act of sacrifice, of the actor giving what is most intimate in their being
We will use as a basis for this the theoretical frameworks on the creation process published by the Arkhétypos Group, and we will correlate them with other frameworks from the field of neuroscience and psychobiology research to present a theoretical hypothesis through which we can deduce what transpires with a performer who enters the altered states of consciousness in the practices of ritual play
Summary
This article was born from the meeting between two researchers from two fields of knowledge and two different types of knowledge that have coordinated and continue to coordinate based on the artistic practice conducted within the sphere of the UFRN Arkhétypos Theater Group1. Leônidas Oliveira Neto; Robson Carlos Haderchpek – The Ritual Play and Altered States of Consciousness: the psychophysical processes in actor creation work
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