Estado bufão: o corpo transgressor, festivo e lúdico

Abstract

This research approaches the buffoon state in the poetics of the stage, tracing my experience with Teatro Bissexto (Recife-PE) in the process of building the buffoons and buffonas for the production of the play Ubu rei ou a revolta dos coadjuvantes (2018-2022). It starts from reflections about the place of the buffoon in society, from the meaning of the term, on ethics in buffa performance, as well as on the problematizations currently raised about the techniques developed by Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaulier. Considering the implications of these techniques in our creative process, we have tried to dimension the buffoon state and perceive its comic, playful and grotesque aspects in the buffa corporeality. This work is a cartographic journey, a composite of crossings and exchanges of affections, which establishes dialogues with other artists, researchers, and relies on the theoretical work of Bakhtin (2010), Bergson (2018), Kayser (2013), Lopes (2005; 2017), Minois (2003), the aforementioned French pedagogues, among others.