Abstract:Alphonsus de Guimaraens: Reconstructions of Memory andRecreations within the Body" is a survey that includes memory and performance as sources for a text able to enter in a field of sensations, which ...Alphonsus de Guimaraens: Reconstructions of Memory andRecreations within the Body" is a survey that includes memory and performance as sources for a text able to enter in a field of sensations, which it may not be able to translate, but may at least touch some points similar to the ephemeral scenic experience.The text is therefore the result of the way I found to express recreations -experienced in the body -of personal memories that connect me to my great-grandfather, the symbolist poet Alphonsus de Guimaraens (1870Guimaraens ( -1921)).The written thesis is an exercise in creation, as much as the praxis in the staging room.Through poetry I arrived at the man, thus, at the curiosity to know who this man was, able to write poetry amid the monotony of his long provincial days.During the research, I realized that fantasy would be fundamental to recreate that memory and to create a dance full of images, in a different becoming, inherent to the actor's work.The seizure of a sense of uniqueness, cultivated along the trajectory of twenty-six years by Lume, eighteen of which I myself have followed from within (as an active member, creating and researching), was taken at "face value" in this task -which m a i n t a i n e d Lume and promoted its intensity.A kind of individual submersion was needed, but connected with the practice of eighteen years of collective discoveries.New is the constellation of factors that make up this specific research, but my experience was built up along many years.Repetition enhances the difference and is able to generate new nuances, sustained, constructed and composed of various elements.Thus, I revisit the methodology of corporeal mimesis and penetrate into a different issue, mimesis of the word as the possibility of filling empty spaces.An active word can contain all the dimensions of the connections of the images it generates, as well as the dimensions of the body, playing with space and time.TheRead More