2023
Acting/Directing Laboratory I
Name: Acting/Directing Laboratory I
Code: ARC14061M
12 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/312 hours
Scientific Area:
Teatro
Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
Modules with experimental and praxiological approaches on topics, themes and relevant issues in the creative work of the actor / director in the contemporary scene
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Students should:
- know / understand
1. The fundamental principles, approaches and techniques in the work of the actor / director;
2. The contributions and perspectives potential of interpretation and staging experienced / researched in the theater creation process as a whole;
3. The problems and challenges that arise on the contemporary scene;
4. Learn the potencials of technological and multimedia assets on stage
- demonstrate skills of:
1. critical and argued analysis;
2. Mobilizing assumptions and artistic techniques within the scope of individual / collective creation;
-manifest the following skills:
1. Develop appropriate dramaturgical concepts that support and promote creativity in the work of the actor / director
2. Organize a work plan in order to implement an artistic project
3. Conceive and Design a staging / acting project
4. Produce a conceptual and analytical reflection on scenic options.
- know / understand
1. The fundamental principles, approaches and techniques in the work of the actor / director;
2. The contributions and perspectives potential of interpretation and staging experienced / researched in the theater creation process as a whole;
3. The problems and challenges that arise on the contemporary scene;
4. Learn the potencials of technological and multimedia assets on stage
- demonstrate skills of:
1. critical and argued analysis;
2. Mobilizing assumptions and artistic techniques within the scope of individual / collective creation;
-manifest the following skills:
1. Develop appropriate dramaturgical concepts that support and promote creativity in the work of the actor / director
2. Organize a work plan in order to implement an artistic project
3. Conceive and Design a staging / acting project
4. Produce a conceptual and analytical reflection on scenic options.
Contents
Considering the challenges facing the actor/director today, we intend to offer a variety of possibilities in the fields of interpretation and staging, which in this Laboratory cover the following areas:
• Experimental Theater:
Experimentalism will always be, by nature, a new starting point for the discovery of new forms and new perspectives; thus enhancing, in this laboratory, the stimulus to research, creativity and risk.
• Actor/director techniques
An area of laboratory exploration that will focus on one or more points of reference among authors and researchers of the 20th and 21st centuries: from Jerzy Grotowski to Ann Bogart, from Augusto Boal to Milo Rau, among others.
• Theater and Multimedia:
The technological and multimedia aspect has contributed in a very expressive way to the theatrical experimentalism of the last decades. This area should be articulated with the experimental theater work mentioned above.
• Experimental Theater:
Experimentalism will always be, by nature, a new starting point for the discovery of new forms and new perspectives; thus enhancing, in this laboratory, the stimulus to research, creativity and risk.
• Actor/director techniques
An area of laboratory exploration that will focus on one or more points of reference among authors and researchers of the 20th and 21st centuries: from Jerzy Grotowski to Ann Bogart, from Augusto Boal to Milo Rau, among others.
• Theater and Multimedia:
The technological and multimedia aspect has contributed in a very expressive way to the theatrical experimentalism of the last decades. This area should be articulated with the experimental theater work mentioned above.
Teaching Methods
An active methodology is adopted, challenging the students to perform creative tasks to research and devise appropriate solutions to the different situations proposed as creators, in the interpretation and direction. Experimental practices will be systematically articulated with the conceptual assumptions of the different approaches, present in the topics covered. The realization and presentation of individual and / or collective projects (materialized in a show / performance with an audience) will feed the debate necessary for individual and colective thought.
Evaluation will be continuous and will value the students insights and participation in class.
Evaluation consists of: Commitment, team spirit and artistic discipline (20%); production of critical reflection about the process (30%); artistic and technical quality of the projects practical implementation (50%)
Evaluation will be continuous and will value the students insights and participation in class.
Evaluation consists of: Commitment, team spirit and artistic discipline (20%); production of critical reflection about the process (30%); artistic and technical quality of the projects practical implementation (50%)
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