Etnoperformance: a reserch methodology for the border

Abstract

This article is the result of the theoretical-practical process of a research carried out at the border of the territory, culture and knowledge. The proposal was the construction of a “border dramaturgy” that would put in dialogue the dreams and conflicts of the protagonists of the play El Acompañamiento and the inhabitants of the trinational border between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. As a methodology we propose to put into practice a relationship between performance and ethnography available in a methodological proposal able of promoting a dialogue between the actor/performer/researcher and the passers-by of the region, here called ethnoperformance. As a conclusion, ethnoperformance is defined as a productive practice, agency of bodies and subjectivities in a border context, in addition to an innovative methodology for the academic environment.