Acting/Directing Laboratory II

Code: ARC14073M

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

Laboratory consisting of 2 modules on topics over different artistic perspectives that address themes and issues of a foundational and experimental nature, relevant to the creative work of today's actor/director.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde e bem-estar - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Redução das desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Paz e Justiça - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

Students should:

- know / understand

1. The fundamental principles, approaches and techniques in the work of the actor / director;
2. The contributions and potential of the perspectives of interpretation / staging; experienced / researched in the theater creation process as a whole;
3. The problems and challenges that arise on the contemporary scene national and internationaly;

- 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 work stages with a view to implementing an artistic project
3. Design your own staging / acting projects
4. Produce a reflection of your own discourse on scenic options.

Considering the challenges faced by the actor/director of our days, stemming from the heterogeneity of perspectives and ways of doing, with which contemporary theater presents itself, we intend to offer different aspects in the fields of interpretation and staging, covering the following areas:

• Repertoire Theatre: Drama based Theater from classical to the present, continues to be an extremely rich source of apprenticeship and artistic reference to actors and directors.

• Site specific performance:
A research area with multiple strands of creation, which has been developed by theatrical creators and researchers, around the world, in recent decades. The project Performance, Heritage and Community - CHAIA - has developed participatory research creation, involving students, in heritage urban spaces in the region, dialoguing with the memory and contemporary problematization of the communities that inhabit the territory.

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%)