A capoeira e o jogo: a construção do corpo-capoeira

Abstract

This study sought to raise reflections on the game developed in body preparation workshops aimed at members of the Arkhétypos Group. The workshops were entitled “Body-Capoeira” and used capoeira as the poetics and foundation of all the work. The aim was to investigate capoeira with all its symbolic, technical and poetic material, seeking elements that could add malevolence to the body work of the actor and actress, thinking about the scene from this language. In this sense, this research united two distinct languages that converse with each other: capoeira and ritual theater, with the play being the common point that makes the languages intersect. The passage through the groups Cordão de Ouro and Capoeira Brasil was taken as a reference for the study because it establishes connections with the philosophy and practice of the fundamentals of regional, Angola and contemporary capoeira. The workshop developed for the Arkhétypos Theater Group of UFRN constituted the basis of the case study that underpins the methodological outline of the research. To carry out these workshops, elements of capoeira were considered, such as ginga, movements that explore the balance and imbalance of the participants, and the action of buying into the other's play, with the aim of assessing what can be added and changed in the physical state of the actor and actress in their creative processes.