The essay presents a brief account of the achievements of the female body in the field of performing arts. It is proposed that from private life and from their experiences and daily practices, the woman artist has been finding resources and tools to develop poetic discourses. It is also suggested that the life stories turned into artistic experiences are aligned with the affective circuits, which promote a better insertion in the subjectivation processes of the contemporary persons. A conquest of space that also takes place in the refusal of any game, or disguise, other than revealing one's own existential realities.