2023
Contemporary trends in performance
Name: Contemporary trends in performance
Code: ARC12590L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Teatro
Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
a) promote critical reflection on contemporary theatrical creation;
b) to draw up a map of creators, thinkers, critics, creative methodologies and centers of research and diffusion that situate contemporary creation in its critical, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary condition, in relations with history, artistic movements, tensions and tendencies to characterize it;
c) encourage students to investigate cultural mechanisms and tensions (issues of gender, power, knowledge, violence and representation) that place creative practices in relation to the cultural dynamics of contemporary society;
d) stimulate critical inquiry, the ability to enunciate and solve problems, through oral presentations, essays and reviews, as well as the exploration of IT (blog, moodle);
e) encourage the deepening of readings, and to verify the impact of technologies on social and artistic practices and ways of thinking (mediatization, internet, bio and technopolitical).
b) to draw up a map of creators, thinkers, critics, creative methodologies and centers of research and diffusion that situate contemporary creation in its critical, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary condition, in relations with history, artistic movements, tensions and tendencies to characterize it;
c) encourage students to investigate cultural mechanisms and tensions (issues of gender, power, knowledge, violence and representation) that place creative practices in relation to the cultural dynamics of contemporary society;
d) stimulate critical inquiry, the ability to enunciate and solve problems, through oral presentations, essays and reviews, as well as the exploration of IT (blog, moodle);
e) encourage the deepening of readings, and to verify the impact of technologies on social and artistic practices and ways of thinking (mediatization, internet, bio and technopolitical).
Contents
1. To map the contemporary theatrical creation: protagonists, themes and problems.
2. Theater and politics: elements for a journey.
3. Theater and inscription of violence. Being a spectator in times of terror.
4. The theater in the culture of the media: theater and technological devices.
5. Theater and other disciplines.
6. Seminar (each year a topic to be negotiated and explored with students in a seminar regime).
2. Theater and politics: elements for a journey.
3. Theater and inscription of violence. Being a spectator in times of terror.
4. The theater in the culture of the media: theater and technological devices.
5. Theater and other disciplines.
6. Seminar (each year a topic to be negotiated and explored with students in a seminar regime).
Teaching Methods
In the classroom, the dominant methodology is participatory learning: texts, documents, works are discussed in a with prior preparation, aiming at participation, debate, analysis and contact with documents and materials of contemporary artistic creation. Attendance assumes a decisive importance, since participation is a tool that generates problematizations, appropriations and re-uses, especially in the context of the seminar. During the semester, two deliveries (short written text) are expected. Students are encouraged to develop a research map / road map, to present and defend. A written test (essay, quizz, frequency) can complement participation and work. The tutorial orientation here acquires a central place, which the student can and should use whenever necessary, to balance his work in and out of class. The final evaluation scheme provides for a written exam.
Teaching Staff
- José Alberto Ferreira [responsible]
