The article is about the author's experience in the pos-doctoral studies in the Performance Studies Department of Tisch School of the Arts/NYU with Richard Schechner, approaching the kind of research developed by the author, its antecedents and what was unfolded from it. The aim is to present, in biographic way, the results of the research and the process of creation in performance accomplished with the theoretical approach from Richard Schechner and Victor Turner. The research included the fieldwork as participant observer on the production process of the play YokastaS directed by Schechner. The creation of a performance exhibited by the author in a scientific meeting is considered as the last step of a transformation path and passageways as she considers her studies in USA were in order to have an anthropological work built through the researcher's own experience.
anthropology of performance; performance; ritual and theatre; Schechner