Lugar para ver. El cuerpo de la mirada del teatro

Abstract

Theater is an artistic practice that has historically been associated with the gaze; in fact, its definition as a discipline has been determined by vision as a limen, a way of demarcating the place of fiction from the place of reality, constituting an ocularcentric regime around the scenic experience. This paper analyzes the visual aspect of theatricality from its etymology, and puts it in tension with the verbal root it shares with theory, in order to problematize the displacement of the body in this oculogocentric regime.