Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article analyzes the staging of "Canek or the Transfigurations of Dreaming" as an example of a Western theatrical practice that seeks to integrate poetics of indigenous origin. It describes the resulting poetic hybridity and relates it to an Amerindian epistemology. Based on this analysis, it argues that it is possible to integrate Western and indigenous performance procedures in the same performance. In order to do so, it advocates the necessity of balancing historical and mytho-spiritual perspectives in the textual and scenic dramaturgy in such a way as to harmonize the historical world with the principles of the indigenous worldview. This balance is established through a poetic hybridity that, within the context of the indigenous worldview, articulates the temporary harmonization of opposing forces and in the empirical world references the creation of social justice.
Source: Ephemera.
Author: Stephan Baumgartel
Institution: Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405108255