O teatro de Gabriela da Cunha e a dança de Maria Eugenia

a incapturabilidade do acontecimento teatral pela perspectiva de M. de Assis, W. Benjamin e J. Dubatti

Abstract

In this paper, we make a critical review of Maria Eugenia’s work, a Brazilian contemporary dancer who worked on Brazil’s popular dances. In order to achieve this, we have used Walter Benjamin’s reflections as presented in his essays The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and The Storyteller, and Jorge Dubatti’s theatrical philosophy proposal, in which he introduces a critical formality regarding the theatrical arts, which has the incapturableness as one of its inextricable characteristics. In this perspective, we understand that Machado de Assis’ criticism in regards to the actress Gabriela da Cunha is according to the theory aspects that will be developed by J. Dubatti. We take the former as a model for our criticism on the dancer Maria Eugenia’s work; as dance is an incapturable theatrical practice that doesn’t even require a text.