World Scenes
Objectives
This is an internationally oriented seminar, aiming to open the horizons of research and teaching in performing arts for the study, theoretical and practical, of performing and spectacular practices in the world: traditional, contemporary or emerging, erudite or popular, professional or amateur. It can cover inter and transartistic forms, in theater, dance, music, opera, circus, performance and installation, as well as marginalized spaces like prisons and hospitals, or hybrid spaces like museums and galleries.
General characterization
Code
02113299
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Yael Karavan
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- BARBA, Eugenio, A Canoa de Papel: tratado de antropologia teatral, São Paulo, Hucitec, 1994
- BARBA e SAVARESE, Anatomie de l'acteur, Cazilhac, Bouffoneries Contrastes, 1985
- FERREIRA; MULLER (orgs.), Performance: arte e antropologia, São Paulo, Hucitec, 2010
- GHAZOUL, Ferial, Alif 39 (ed.): Transnational Drama: Theater and Performance, Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 2019
- GREINER, Christine. A Diáspora do corpo em crise: do teatro japonês aos novos processos de comunicação do ator contemporâneo. Revista Sala Preta. São Paulo: v.2, 2002, p. 103-116.
- INNES, Christopher, Holy theater: ritual and the avant-garde, Camvridge Univ. Press, 1981
- PITCHES, Jonathan; Aquilina, Stephan (eds.), Stanislasvsky in the world: the system and its transformations across continents, London, Methween, 2017
- WETMORE JR., Kevin; LIU, Siyuan; MEE, Erin B., Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000, London, Methween, 2014
Teaching method
Theoretical lecturing combined with the training of one or more techniques, ending in a practical laboratory in unconventional spaces.
Evaluation method
Continuous Assessment - Attendance and quality in technical classes(40%), Personal results in the final laboratory(40%), Test on the theoretical foundations(20%)
Subject matter
Dialectic between tradition and modernity. Genealogy of contemporary artistic languages.
Modernists' fascination with "primitive" and oriental scenes.
The interest of Meyerhold, of the futurists, of the dada, of Brecht, of Craig, for non-erudite scenes such as street theater, vaudeville, cabaret.
The school of theatrical anthropology
The use of the mask, from Greece to our days
Contemporary languages, such as Butoh, that start from ancestral traditions.
Experimentation laboratory in unconventional spaces.