Explaining Embodied/Space making Rehearsal processes of body-centered theaters based on Merleau-Ponty's philosophical opinions.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D student of art researchProfessor, Department of art research, Faculty of Arts and Architecture,Tarbiat Modares University.

2 Assistant professor at Department of Art, University of Tarbiat Modarres

3 Assistant Professor, Department of art research, Faculty of Arts and Architecture,Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

10.30480/dam.2024.5188.1869

Abstract

The theorizing process in the field of bodily exercise processes is significantly based on Merleau-Ponty's concept of corporeality and sensory perception of the exercise process as a bodily function; In order to reach the body's understanding of the exercise process, it is not only necessary to explain the body in terms of philosophical paradigms, but it is also necessary to explain the characteristics of Embodied/Space making Rehearsal processes on Merleau-Ponty's opinions. In this article, the intertwining of philosophy and practice is emphasized, how to create a common ground and a new potential for understanding the training processes in body-oriented theaters, and in this field, a new conceptual approach can be used to understand the concept of physicality in the theater training process based on the training method. He created a Embodied/Space making Rehearsal processes. The purpose of this article is to explain the elements and characteristics of . Embodied/Space making Rehearsal method based on the concepts of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. This article, with a descriptive-analytical method and using library and internet resources, tries to answer the question of how, based on Merleau-Ponty's concepts of phenomenology, a suitable bed can be found for the study, explanation and phenomenological analysis of the practice of creating space. Did the body-oriented theater provide? Based on the phenomenological approach and Merleau-Ponty's opinions, the obtained result shows that in the training method of . Embodied/Space making Rehearsal, the body of the "actor-performers" plays an essential role as an element of the template and the main platform of the process of creating events in the training process. This method of training by emphasizing the concept of "actor-performer" and the concept of "embodied reflection" suggests a method for the process of embodied training based on indicators such as "the embodied experience of actors-performers in the process of training", "the interweaving of self-other with each other in the position of subject-object in the lived world of training". , "the bodily perception of the participants with all the components and elements and objects in the space/rehearsal environment" and "the bodily/sensory perception of the performers in the face of the world with which they interact" emphasize the rediscovery of the space/rehearsal environment. In this situation, the actors-performers enter a state of being/doing at that moment and continuously adjust themselves to the changes in the space/rehearsal environment;

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