Performance arbitrária: um auto en-cantamento.

Abstract

This monographic research presents the process of experimentation that gave rise to Arbitrary Performance: a self-enchantment. With the objective of exposing and analyzing the creation of a final performance of the Degree in Music – Interpretive Practices (qualification in Popular Song) at the Federal University of Paraíba, through the methodological perspective of autoethnography and Experimentation Diaries, this research transits through different dramaturgical texts, regional sonorities, rescue of memories and cultural roots, in the interpretation and corporeality of the singerperformer, investigating the creative transit between the writing of oneself and the writing of the scene. In the chapters that follow, the reflective records, written and analyzed throughout the conception and practical implementation of this experiment, the theoretical aspects that supported the elaboration of this artistic work, as well as the reflection on the importance of self-enchantment (or the first need for self- enchantment) and the possibility of using this methodology in Music Education.