THE ZERO BODY AND THE NOTIONS OF ENERGY AND PRESENCE IN THE BODY OF THE ACTOR AT THE BRIDGE OF THE WINDS.
Energy, Corpo Zero, presence, poetic body, Training, The Bridge of Winds
This research proposes an ontological study of the theatrical body- corpo sui generis-, from which the whole process of building a poetics for the scene is born. This proposal covers the definition of Corpo Zero, based on a long-term experience with the Training of the multicultural theatre research group The Bridge of Winds, and through the recording and analyzing of the group's practices. Corpo Zero, as an analogy for the territory where the immanence of the living human body is located, and for how this primeval body functions as the locus that the actor appropriates to build a poetic being. For this, the concept of energy is analysed in depth, through its connections to hard sciences, phenomenology, philosophy and the theory of artistic analysis and production, pursuing ways on how to recognize this Corpo Zero. In the latter, energy is thought, linked to effort, it is movement, knowledge and enhances the presence of the actor's body, transforming it into a poetic entity.