A PRAIA COMO PALCO: EXPLORANDO A PERFORMATIVIDADE DOS AMBULANTES NO PROCESSO DE CRIAÇÃO DO ATOR

Abstract

This article seeks to reflect on the connections between theater and the life of a street vendor. Throughout the text, I address the creative power that comes from the various aspects of my daily life. By exposing these connections, I also propose an “optical expansion” of everyday performativities and present street vendors as “social actors”. Taking the beach as a reference, I make a critical analysis of everyday reality and think about the possibilities of scenic creation based on affections. During the writing, I will be examining the relationships between my daily life as a street vendor and theater, in order to investigate whether street vendors, in their work, live in a performative state or not. Parallel to this, I describe my process of scenic investigation, bringing to the creative act this daily life that permeates me and drives my “theater making”. The artistic process is based on three principles: observation, embodiment, and theatricalization, and is anchored in studies of theater anthropology.