Disciplines • Performing Arts in Socio-Educational processes - 3 Credits Studies of academic and extra-academic formation in theatre, aiming at developing the teacher’s knowledge and practices. Discussion on implications of this debate in the educational field. • Workshop on Composition and Settings I - 3 Credits Student’s practical experiments, investigating technical and methodological procedures and studies on theatre languages associated with the practical and theoretical goals of their research projects. • Workshop on Composition and Settings II - 3 Credits Student’s practical experiments in a deeper level, addressing technical and aesthetic principles for the realization of their projects. • Brazilian Culture and Practice - 2 Credits Brazilian culture and theatrical practice. The condition of the Brazilian scene establishing relationships among the erudite art, the popular and mass culture. Relationships between dramaturgy and scenic space. • Playwriting in Contemporary Scene - 3 Credits Study of scenic practices whose creative processes are emancipated from figuration and text as the first reference of meaning. Investment in the kinaesthetic experience of the viewer, offering a plural perspective of meanings. Composed by the drama scene characterized by the circulation of images, fragmentation and discontinuity, through the dynamic and interactive exploration of different sensitive resources and of the cultural, artistic and / or technological hybridization. • Advanced Studies in Performing Arts - 3 Credits Studies of different author-creator’s thoughts and their contribution to the contemporary scene, identifying the concepts of theatricality and the principles that guide the creative process. • Studies and Practices of Word- 3 Credits The creative possibilities of the word as a generator of images, sounds and senses, as well as writing and voicing practices. Approaches between literature experiences and oral poetry with poetic and scenic writing. The word as performance in reading, theatre and other artistic or media interfaces. Articulations of words, listening and silence. The actor and the word.
• Photoethnography: Research in arts and humanities - 1 Credit The history, traditions and practices of photography in the anthropological production. The Photoethnography as anthropological narrative. The use of photography in field research and ethnographic writing.
• Memory, narrative, experience and knowledge in performing arts - 3 credits Development of theoretical and practical procedures with emphasis on relationships among memory, experience, knowledge construction and authorship in the performing arts field. From the oral narrative and writing formative experiences of personal trajectory of the participants, linked to their motivations and interests, we seek to understand the origins of the scientific curiosity of individuals and the relationships between their artistic practice and teaching, theoretical frameworks, epistemological conceptions, aesthetic choices, pedagogical, methodological and professionals, and their training processes both within and outside the academic environment. • Performance and Spectacularity - 3 Credits Study of different cultural events from the point of view of Ethnocenology. Introduction to Anthropology and the notions of Culture, Acculturation and Inculturation. Establish common principles among anthropological Theatre, Theatre Anthropology and Performance. The notion of the spectacular, the theatricality based on the Ethnocenological approach.
• Research in Performing Arts - 3 Credits Presentation and discussion of issues related to the configuration of contemporary society that deserve to be studied, taking as reference the concepts of science, art and spectacle. Discussion on the existing research concepts. Information about different types of research and discussion of the possibilities of adequacy between object and method. Review and improvement of the research project in performing arts. • Body Poetics in the contemporary scene - 3 Credits Studies on the body in the contemporary scene, from the understanding of technical, ethical, poetic, aesthetic and political assumptions that pervade different choreographic practices, emphasizing a non-hierarchical view of these practices. Technical patterns, somatic approaches, creative procedures, discursive and reflective practices as supports for the preparation of bodies available for creation. Intersections among artistic disciplines, the scenic space fragmentation, cultural mobility, desterritorialization as contexts of contemporary choreographic practices. • Theatrical Reception and Contemporaneity - 3 Credits Types of theatrical relationships and their approaches’ methods. Assumptions of practice and theatrical reception in contemporaneity. Staging and aesthetic experience. Reading and cognition. • Research in Progress Seminar - 3 Credits Monitoring and discussion of student’s research projects, regarding the deepening of theoretical concepts and raising critical bibliography. For the performing researches a project of composition and staging will be asked. • Dissertation Preparation Seminar - 3 Cred. Art and Research: links between creation, reflection and writing. Aimed at improving the final text of the dissertation or memorial staging monitoring. • Theatre No Show and Atorialidade - 3 Cred. Study spectacular, from the notion of "society of the spectacle" and other contributions of lyricist and Situationist movements. smaller theater without spectacle theater, the emptiness of the scene and atorialidade Carmelo Bene. Affinities of the notions studied in Bene with the work of other contemporary artists, especially the performing arts. • Special Topic - To map in Performing Arts docket
Cartography and related perspectives in Performing Arts. Thinking embodied, wheel and decolonization of thought. The South of the South or the interior-in- us: researcher in art as a pilgrim.
Methodology and Objectives
The course aims to sectarian studies, to think together contributions to the performing arts - or possible contamination - studies on mapping research. also seek unrest zones approach to studies that propose a decolonization of thought. • Special Topic - To map in Performing Arts docket Cartography and related perspectives in Performing Arts. Thinking embodied, wheel and decolonization of thought. The South of the South or the interior-in- us: researcher in art as a pilgrim. Methodology and Objectives The course aims to sectarian studies, to think together contributions to the performing arts - or possible contamination - studies on mapping research. also seek unrest zones approach to studies that propose a decolonization of thought.
• Special Topic in Performing Arts I - 1 Cred Study of current discussion issues at the research in the performing arts. • Special Topic in Theatre Arts II - 2 Cred. Disciplines and Bibliography Thesis Seminar in Performing Arts - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Character: Required Deepening of operational concepts that enable the support of ongoing research in the program.
Advanced Seminar in Performing Arts - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Character: Required Discussion on recent theoretical production, linked to the contemporary creation in performing arts. scenic composition studies - 45h / class - 3 Cred Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 1 Character: Optional Studies of concepts and methods present at the creation of the contemporary scene. Dramaturgy of Contemporary Scene - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 1 Character: Optional Study of scenic practices whose creative processes emancipated from figuration and text as the first direction reference. Invest in the kinesthetic experience of the viewer, offering a plural perspective of meanings. They make up a playwriting scene characterized by the circulation of images, fragmentation and discontinuity, through dynamic and interactive exploration of different sensitive resources and cultural, artistic and / or technological hybridization.
Studies and Practices of Word- 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 1 Character: Optional The creative possibilities of the word as a generator of images, sounds and senses, and writing and voicing practices. Approaches between literature experiences and oral poetry and poetic and scenic writing. The word as performance in reading, theater and other artistic or media interfaces. ente joints word, listening and silence. The actor and the word.
Performance and Espetacularidade- 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 1 Character: Optional The study of different cultural events from the point of view of Ethnoscenology. Introduction to Anthropology and Culture notions of Acculturation and inculturation. Establish common principles between anthropology Theatre, Theatre Anthropology and Performance. The notion of spectacular theatricality in the approach to Etnocenologia. body poetics in contemporary scene - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 1 Character: Optional body study in the contemporary scene, from the understanding of technical assumptions, ethical poetic, aesthetic and political pervade different choreographic practices, emphasizing a non-hierarchical view of these practices. Technical dies, somatic approaches, creative procedures, discursive and reflective practices as supports for the preparation of bodies available for creation. Intersections among artistic disciplines, the scenic space fragmentation, cultural mobility, dispossession as contexts of contemporary choreographic practices.
Body practices in dance, performance and improvisation - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 1 Character: Optional Presentation, discussion and analysis of bodily practices of dancers-who develop their creations in the context of contemporary dance and dialogue with theater, performance and improvisation. It is considered creators-dancers who dance and act in their own creations or collaborative work under the experimental art. We seek to understand independent artists paths through case studies and their inclusion in the dance field.
Poetic scene and formative processes - 45h / class - 3 Cred Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 2 Character: Optional. Theories, practices and methodologies related to poetic and formative processes in the performing arts.
Performing Arts in Socio-Educational processes - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 2 Character: Optional Studies of academic formation and extra-academic theater, aiming to develop the knowledge and practices teachers. Discussion on implications of this debate in education.
Formation of the Brazilian theater: text and context - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 2 Character: Optional Study of the Brazilian theater, with a view to training perspective, as formulated by Antonio Candido and also Decio de Almeida Prado, among others, which seeks to understand how the Brazilian dramaturgy was at the same time doing and making the country. Study of exemplary cases: Corpo Santo; Machado de Assis; Simoes Lopes Neto; Nelson Rodrigues.
Memory, narrative, experience and knowledge in performing arts - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 2 Character: Optional Development of theoretical and practical procedures with emphasis on relationships between memory, experience, knowledge construction and authorship in the performing arts field. From the oral narrative and writing formative experiences of personal trajectory of participants linked to motivations and interests, we seek to understand the origins of the scientific curiosity of individuals and the relationships between their artistic practice and teaching, their theoretical frameworks, epistemological conceptions , their aesthetic choices, pedagogical, methodological and professionals and their training processes within and outside the academic environment.
Theatrical reception and contemporaneity - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 2 Character: Optional Types of theatrical relationship and their approaches. Assumptions of practice and theatrical reception nowadays. Role-playing and aesthetic experience. Reading and cognition.
Theatre without Show and Atorialidade - 45h / class - 3 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 2 Character: Optional Study spectacular, from the notion of "society of the spectacle" and other contributions of lyricist and Situationist movements. smaller theater without spectacle theater, empty scene and atorialidade Carmelo Bene. Affinities of the notions studied in Bene with the work of other contemporary artists, especially the performing arts.
Brazilian culture and practice - 30h / class - 2 Cred. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 2 Character: Optional Brazilian culture and theatrical practice. The condition of the scenario in Brazil between high art; popular culture and mass culture. Relations between dramaturgy and scenic area. Concentration Area: Performing Arts Research line: 1 and 2 Character: Optional Seminar on the subject of interest of students ongoing research.
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The Graduate Program in Performing Arts (PPGAC) of UFRGS Arts Institute is engaged in the training of qualified staff, Master's level for the year of teaching, research and artistic knowledge production.