Corpo e cena em dois documentários de Frederick Wiseman

Abstract

This text seeks to bring some considerations about two documentaries of Frederick Wiseman, in which are emphasized the work of the body that dances and the scene in which it is inserted. The two documentary The dance. Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (2009) and Crazy Horse (2011) present rigorously the work of the body of the dancer in order to arrive at a result considered excellent by the choreographers, and in the case of The dance, the work of the body dialogues with the classic ballet and in the case of Crazy Horse with dance numbers and striptease of a Parisian cabaret. Wiseman uses in the two films the same style of assembly linked to the direct cinema, of non intervention in the filmed scene. The analysis of these two documentaries give us clues about how the audiovisual can be a tool of researches of the body in scene.