Ephemera: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

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Éden Peretta — 2024-11-27

Presentation of the Special Issue

André Magela — 2024-11-11

Presentation of the Special Issue

André Magela — 2024-11-25

Acting classroom and the Grotowskian notion of contact

Tatiana Motta Lima — 2024-10-17

In this essay, we seek to reflect on how, in ‘collaborative work over time’, certain traditions of theatre are able to invite us to experience other ways of living, distinct from those - neoliberal ones - that are making us sick. This reflection is developed through the presentation of some research developed in the acting classroom and laboratories, with an emphasis on the Grotowskian notion of 'contact'. This notion, experienced as a 'practiced word' and investigated and (re)invented in teaching/learning processes, offers a kind of antidote to the 'neoliberal individual way of being', enabling the reestablishment of ties and the embodied experience of ways of co-living, coexistence, and co-particip-a(c)tion in the flows of life.

Acting classroom and the Grotowskian notion of contact

Tatiana Motta Lima — 2024-10-26

In this essay, we seek to reflect on how, in “collaborative work over time”, certain traditions of theatre are able to invite us to experience other ways of living, distinct from those - neoliberal ones - that are making us sick. This reflection is developed through the presentation of some research developed in the acting classroom and laboratories, with an emphasis on the Grotowskian notion of “contact”. This notion, experienced as a “practiced word” and investigated and (re)invented in teaching/learning processes, offers a kind of antidote to the “neoliberal individual way of being”, enabling the reestablishment of ties and the embodied experience of ways of co-living, coexistence, and co-particip-a(c)tion in the flows of life.

“Allow me speak, not my scars”

Victor Hugo Neves de Oliveira — 2024-10-29

This article is an account of pedagogical practices developed for theater teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was qualitative study based on bibliographic and documentary data, which proposed the elaboration of a critical-reflective report that aimed to share the difficulties and challenges related to theater education in 2020.

“Let me speak, not my scars”

Victor Hugo Neves de Oliveira — 2024-11-04

This text is a report on pedagogical practices developed for teaching theater during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methodologically, qualitative research was carried out, based on bibliographic and documentary data, and it was proposed to prepare a critical-reflective report through which the difficulties and challenges related to theater teaching in 2020 are shared.

Old expectations, new challenges

Martha Dias da Cruz Leite — 2024-10-17

The article reflects on the impacts of the crisis of authority in the theatrical training field, using Hannah Arendt's theorizations on the phenomenon of authority and her studies on modernity. After more than fifty years since the philosopher’s considerations on the crisis of authority in the educational field, contemporary events, such as the expansion of access to information through digital channels and the appreciation of the diversity of perspectives promoted by identity agendas, add new and important layers of complexity to this debate. The theatrical training field, in turn, is not immune to the effects of this wider political crisis, since it permeates all spheres of human life. Although this article does not claim to offer immediate answers or solutions to the multiple challenges that affect the daily life of teachers, it does contextualize some of the crossroads to which the pedagogical field is subjected, especially with regard to higher education. Faced with the situation that has arisen, the text resorts to dialogue with the philosophy of education to understand the theatrical pedagogical experience, arguing in favor of adopting a critical stance in relation to beliefs and assumptions that are sometimes considered untouchable in theater pedagogy, and the importance of re-evaluating the maintenance of recurring expectations imposed on theatrical pedagogical practice.

Old expectations, new challenges

Martha Dias da Cruz Leite — 2024-10-26

The theater and the plague in algorithm networks

Gustavo Henrique Lima Ferreira — 2024-10-17

This article aims to analyze some of the manipulative effects of internet connectivity, along with what Vilém Flusser pointed out as an advancement of an immaterial culture, which depletes the spectator-internaut of his decision-making capacity. We then propose, in theater making, the resumption of the ideas of Antonin Artaud's theater of cruelty, especially in its relationship with the plague.

The theater and the plague in algorithm networks

Gustavo Henrique Lima Ferreira — 2024-10-26

Body response

Miguel Levi de Oliveira Lucas — 2024-10-17

Um trabalho teatral com o enfoque na produção de subjetividade só pode ser observado por meio de vislumbres. Os processos de subjetivação, da mesma forma, se manifestam sempre por meio de lampejos; somente em momentos muito cruciais e específicos torna-se possível testemunhar seu acontecimento. O presente texto procura analisar e refletir sobre a instauração de processos de subjetivação por meio da educação teatral em oficinas realizadas no projeto aprovado na Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais no Edital do Programa de Apoio à Extensão 01/2022. A partir do entendimento que existe no trabalho somático proposto pela educação teatral uma possibilidade para invenções de mundos como uma ferramenta para intervenções em outros aspectos da vida. Desta feita, o artigo analisa uma experiência de ação teatral por meio do que chamaremos “resposta de corpo”, conceito forjado à luz da experiência, que problematiza e articula a atividade somática realizada durante as oficinas de educação teatral e os processos coordenados que criam o plano de consistência. Nele, as matérias de expressão, as cognições teatrais, as qualidades de corpos, a mobilização experimentada e a ação, então conquistada no contato com outros corpos, estabelecem-se e sustentam-se numa verdadeira invenção de existência.

Body response

Miguel Levi de Oliveira Lucas — 2024-10-26

A theatrical work with focus on the production of subjectivity can only be observed through glimpses. The subjectivation processes, likewise, always manifests itself through flashes; only at very crucial and specific moments is it possible to witness their ocurrence. This text seeks to analyze and reflect on the establishment of processes of subjectivation through Theater Education in Theater workshops as part of the project approved at the University of the State of Minas Gerais under the Extension Support Program Announcement 01/2022. Based on the understanding that there is a possibility within the somatic work proposed by Theatre Education for the invention of worlds, serving as a tool for interventions in other aspects of life. In this way, the article analyzes a theatrical action experience through what we will call “body response”, a concept forged in light of experience that problematizes and articulates the somatic activity carried out during the theatre education workshops and the coordinated processes that create the plan of consistency. In the plan, the materials of expression, theatrical cognitions, qualities of bodies, the mobilization experienced, and the action, achieved in contact with other bodies, establishes and sustains itself in a true invention of existence.

The Endless Stories

Thiago Meira — 2024-10-17

This article contains an experience analysis carried out in Drama for Childhood Education classes in a private school, during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a creative process with its roots in the performative research, in which children and teachers perform in the virtual environment. Concepts from the Sociology of Education and performativity were used to understand the children's performative practice.

The Endless Stories

Thiago Meira — 2024-10-26

This article presents an analysis of an experience conducted in Theater classes for Early Childhood Education at a private school in the city of Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the performative methodology, a creative process was set up in which children and teachers performed in the virtual environment. Concepts from the Sociology of Education and performativity were used to understand the children’s performative practice.

Performance and Social drama in Improvisational Theater

José Luis Felicio Carvalho — 2024-10-17

The article was guided by the objective of analyzing how improvisational theater can add to the resistance against the domination imposed by colonialism, particularly with regard to the conflict inherent to social drama, in line with the work of Victor Turner. The anti-racist show Swag Hat, improvised by the African American collective BlackOut during the most traditional festival of its kind in Europe, was chosen as a case study.

Performance and Social Drama in Improvisational Theater

José Luis Felicio Carvalho — 2024-10-26

The article was guided by the objective of analyzing how improvisational theater can add to the resistance against the domination imposed by colonialism, particularly with regard to the conflict inherent to social drama, in line with the work of Victor Turner. The anti-racist show “Swag Hat”, improvised by the African American collective BlackOut during the most traditional festival of its kind in Europe, was chosen as a case study.

Far beyond Carandiru

Murilo Moraes Gaulês — 2024-10-17

this text takes a historical and conceptual approach to the experiments in the field of performing arts pedagogy carried out in Complexo do Carandiru from 1940 onwards. Drawing parallels with the philosophy of penal abolitionism, the text tries to update some reflections on theater, prison and abolitionism.

Far beyond Carandiru

Murilo Moraes Gaulês — 2024-10-26

This text presents a historical and conceptual approach to the experiments in the field of performing arts pedagogy carried out in the Carandiru Complex starting in 1940. Drawing parallels with the philosophy of penal abolitionism, the text aims to update some reflections on theater, imprisonment, and abolitionism.

Western theatre under indigenous influence

Stephan Baumgartel — 2024-10-17

The article analyzes the staging of "Canek or the Transfigurations of Dreaming" as an example of a Western theatrical practice that seeks to integrate poetics of indigenous origin. It describes the resulting poetic hybridity and relates it to an Amerindian epistemology. Based on this analysis, it argues that it is possible to integrate Western and indigenous performance procedures in the same performance. In order to do so, it advocates the necessity of balancing historical and mytho-spiritual perspectives in the textual and scenic dramaturgy in such a way as to harmonize the historical world with the principles of the indigenous worldview. This balance is established through a poetic hybridity that, within the context of the indigenous worldview, articulates the temporary harmonization of opposing forces and in the empirical world references the creation of social justice.

Western theatre under indigenous influence

Stephan Baumgartel — 2024-10-26

(In)fest with fireflies

Alana Schambakler — 2024-10-17

This work takes as a parameter the context of the uprisings developed by Georges Didi-Huberman to analyze how the performative staging of Quando Quebra Queima by coletivA ocupação incorporated as a gesture of celebration and revolt, the uprising of the secondary movement of 2015 and 2016. Problematizing, according to bell hooks, the concept of education as a practice of freedom, issues of race, gender and revolt.

Jíbaro or the subversion of Odysseu

George Fredman Santos Oliveira — 2024-10-17

we analyze the animated short film Jíbaro, the ninth episode of the series Love, Death + Robots, Season 3, released in May 2022 on the Netflix streaming platform directed by Alberto Mielgo, in contrast to Excursus I: Odiseo, Myth and Enlightenment from the work Dialectic of Enlightenment by Adorno and Horkheimer (1944), relating them to the events of the collapse of ore tailings dams, environmental disasters with human fingerprints, which occurred in the Minas Gerais state in recent years. The text compares the languages of mythical narrative and digital narrative within the Western image regime, in a dialectical-materialist reading of this imaginary in which the representations of male-female, work-nature, domination-freedom, ratio-Trieb are related.

O Teatro no Novo Ensino Médio Integral Theater in the New Brazilian High School

Márcia Cristina Baltazar — 2024-10-17

Some evaluations of the New Comprehensive Secondary Education (NEM) made by those who actually went through the new curriculum will be presented. It also shows the evaluations of other authors about how Art is conceived in the NEM and critical thinking is made about the subjective function of evaluating skills imposed by the BNCC. Then, it reflects on the assessment of learning in Theater, considering its own contents, its didactics, its epistemology. The objective is to find out what is being provoked to be taught and evaluated in Theater in the New Brazilian High School. The methodology is based on a bibliographical review and interviews with two teachers from a state school in the interior of the state of Sergipe. The text shows the weaknesses of the NEM and the inadequacy of Art and Theater to the logic of the BNCC. It is concluded that political mobilization is necessary for the resurrection of Theater in Brazilian schools.

Couraça

Raylson Conceição — 2024-10-17

This article analyzes the performance Couraça de Leônidas Portela, based on the theories of Patrice Pavis, Lîlâ Bisiaux, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, and others. Although the performance utilizes public space (Milton Santos) as its stage, our investigative focus will be on the body as the concrete material of performativity, as well as on the symbolic aspects of the ox as a popular tradition. Using semiotic methodology, we will analyze the bodily elements of the actor, the different types of physical spaces, and the ox as an aesthetic symbol of resistance in Maranhão. We assert that the performance is a decolonial practice, with Bumba meu boi as the central figure for its aesthetic creation.

The possible resonances in times of digital crossings

Patrícia Gusmão Maciel — 2024-10-29

This essay addresses the relationships built in digital and online spaces with artistic and aesthetic experiences facilitated through an online theater workshop for teenagers. The reflections developed involve the concepts of resonance and corporeity, tensioned with a frenetic technological and digital contemporary world, and how art can align itself with more qualitative and significant perspectives in the relationships between subjects. The methodology used was based on flânerie listening, which has the premise of bringing polysemy and opening of meanings to what was experienced and observed during the online theater workshop. Authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hartmut Rosa, Pierre Lévy, among others, help with the theoretical conceptualization and support the development of the work. It is concluded that meetings in a technological and digital environment, when directed in a creative and sensitive way, can promote affection, which is categorized as the self-construction of subjectivities based on relationships.