Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas

Concentration areas and research lines:

• THEATER THEORIES AND PRACTICES - Lines: 

Body, Performativity and Puppet Theater

This line of research brings together researchers who investigate the theory and practice of stage production, with an emphasis on creative processes, artistic training, the poetics of the body, movement and puppet theater. The scope of the research includes fundamental aspects of contemporary theater and the processes of staging and stage performance. As a theoretical horizon, the aim is to articulate different approaches, including literary, artistic and performative concepts, cultural and anthropological studies and procedural philosophy

Professors: Bianca Scliar Cabral Mancini; Milton de Andrade; Paulo César Balardim Borges.

Political Images

This line of research brings together researchers who investigate theories and practices of stage creation and production. It is articulated in different approaches, namely: gender, queer and feminist theories; critical theory, cultural and decolonial studies; and feminist and intersectional historiography and epistemologies of performing arts. 

Areas of interest: creative processes, poetics and politics of the body, voice, acting and directing; images, allegories, spaces, languages ​​and techniques of the stage; festivals, rites, celebrations and carnival; acting training and education; martial and meditative practices; feminist theatre and black theatre; arts of black and indigenous bodies; political theatre, social movements, popular expressions and demonstrations and cultural policies.

Professors: Daiane Dordete S. Jacobs, Fatima Costa de Lima, Tereza Mara Franzoni, Maria Brígida de Miranda, Luciana Lyra, Monique Vandresen.

Theatre Pedagogy

This line of research integrates researchers who study theatre from an educational perspective, from different approaches. It covers the possibilities of theater as teaching and learning practices, focusing on theoretical and methodological concepts related to the practice of these arts in schools, as well as in various educational and cultural institutions, and in community contexts. It also includes mediation and artistic reception in educational settings, both in approaches aimed at audience formation and in issues involving studies on aesthetic experience.

Professors: Diego de Medeiros Pereira; Flávio Desgranges; Heloise Baurich Vidor; Vicente Concilio.

Theater, Society and Scenic Creation

This line of research brings together researchers whose studies are related to theatre productions and their respective sociocultural processes. Through the links between Theater Theory and Sociocultural History, with a focus on contemporary phenomena, its studies analyze and investigate creative processes, their artistic and critical-conceptual procedures, as well as the structure and reception of the dramatic text and performance. 

Professors: André Luiz Antunes Netto Carreira;  Stephan Arnulf Baumgärtel; Ivan Delmanto Franklin de Matos.