Repertório

The Expanded Scene: Crossroads Between Theater, Cinema and Video - Concepts and Multiple Poetics ma, and Video

Julia Carrera — 2025-08-01

The text discusses the relationship between theater and digital technologies, especially recorded and projected images. It questions whether the "live performance" is still composed of actors in flesh and blood, and that screens can open new spaces for imagination and alter the audience's perception, exploring a changing world. The text also discusses the arrival of digital images in theater, highlighting how digital technology has expanded the possibilities of creation and documentation of the scene. The presence of images in the theatrical scene shifts the spectator's perception and expands the possibilities of the play. Theater has always had a relationship with cinema, but digital language brings new possibilities and challenges concepts such as identification, illusion, spectator, and presence. Technological advancements have allowed creators of the stage to expand their methods of creation, inventing devices and crossing results. By the end of the 20th century, procedures involving the intersection of cinema and theater emerged in the theatrical scene, such as using films as creative material, the influence of accelerated editing in cinema on the rhythm of the staging, projecting overlaid images onto the scene, using recorded soundtracks, and recording rehearsals on video. These technologies have expanded the possibilities of theatrical creation and the recording of performances on video.

Spaces are alive: From the Environmental Art of Hélio Oiticica to the Environmental Theater of Richard Schechner

Moacir Romanini Junior — 2025-08-01

This study seeks to bring together the concepts of Environmental Art, by Hélio Oiticica, and Environmental Theater, by Richard Schechnner, in an attempt to contribute to studies in the Performing Arts concerned with the relationship between performer and spatiality. To this end, it focuses on spatial latencies in which environments are co-agents in the processes of creation in a coexistence that allows for a kind of feeling of space, caused by bodies in displacement and the interrelationships generated there. Finally, in this relationship of communion with the environment, it is believed that the effective consideration of space as a state of life gives the creative act the condition of daily rupture, in the body of the artist and in the body of the world.

Um Moçambique inserido no mundo: a peça Desmascarado, de Venâncio Calisto

Carlos Gontijo Rosa — 2025-08-01

Ao analisar a peça Desmascarado, do autor moçambicano Venâncio Calisto, os dois aspectos mais evidentes são o conflito entre as personagens Amélia e Arcanjo como reflexo e metáfora das disputas entre feminilidade versus masculinidade e tradição versus modernidade. Naquela, a peça é uma reação à visão da mulher para um certo tipo de ancestralidade em que se calca uma cultura popular moçambicana (a peça, o contexto da dança mapiko); nesta, a forma como as personagens se veem e como interagem com os acontecimentos do mundo contemporâneo. Na peça, todas as marcas de passado remetem ao retrógrado e ultrapassado, colocando também em questão a supervalorização de uma cultura local. Assim, vemos como essa “nova geração” da dramaturgia africana em língua portuguesa interage com um passado plural e com um presente que inexoravelmente chega para todas as sociedades.

For an honest gesture: Rubens Barbot and contemporary black dance

Leandro da Conceição Borges — 2025-08-01

The article discusses the importance of Rubens Barbot's work in contemporary dance and proposes a remembrance of his work in the field of education. Companhia Rubens Barbot de Dança-Teatro was the first black contemporary dance company formed by black artists, which sought to value the bodies of its dancers and hybridize culture with contemporary dance. The text argues that, in a context where the memory of struggles is made invisible, it is important to bring Barbot's proposals and present them to students in order to promote anti-racist education and decolonize bodies and minds. Finally, the authors also highlight the importance of connecting to ancestry in order to promote new knowledge and ways of seeing, living and being in the world.

Benefícios do ballet para pessoas com deficiência visual: estudo baseado na percepção da família

Ana Beatriz Sales Silva — 2025-08-01

Our study aimed to characterize what are the benefits of ballet for people with Visual Impairment (DV) in the perception of the family. Five mothers (ages 38 to 46 years) participated in the study. Their daughters were dancers with congenital DV (age 13 to 22 years), practicing classical ballet for three years. Data collection consisted of the application of a semi-structured interview (via whatsapp) with issues related to the benefits of ballet for young people with DV. Our results indicated benefits related to well-being, personal achievement, self-esteem and happiness; posture improvement, balance and independence improvement. We conclude that in the perception of the mothers of the dancers with DV the benefits are related to the development in the psychological and physical-motor aspects.

Práticas somáticas em dança como terapia para pessoas com doença de Parkinson: experiências com o método Baila Parkinson.

Wallesson Amaral Alcantara — 2025-08-01

Este artigo discute as práticas terapêuticas para pessoas com doença de Parkinson (DP) através do método Baila Parkinson, elaborado a partir de técnicas de dança associadas a conceitos e técnicas multiprofissionais em reabilitação. A DP altera o esquema, a imagem e a consciência corporal, de acordo com a progressão da doença e com características individuais do sujeito. Seus sintomas levam ao aumento da dependência, isolamento social, depressão, perda de controle, vinculados à natureza imprevisível da doença, que agravam a condição deste corpo para além da patologia. Através do método Baila Parkinson, discutiremos a lógica relacionada aos benefícios das práticas somáticas na dança na promoção da consciência corporal e do autoconhecimento por meio da experiência artística. A recuperação do contato com o próprio corpo e o aumento do senso de controle através da exploração das suas possibilidades podem promover benefícios motores, psicológicos, cognitivos e sociais, atenuando o quadro clínico. Acreditamos que no cenário terapêutico alguns conceitos provenientes da educação somática podem auxiliar a conscientização do corpo, como a observação interna a partir da interação com objetos, mapa gestual e respiração como suporte do movimento. Tudo numa cronologia dividida entre sentir, perceber e intencionar através de experimentações de conexão com o corpo.

A POLÍTICA DE IDENTIDADE: UMA PERSPECTIVA CRÍTICA NA E SOBRE A ARTE

DJALMA THÜRLER — 2025-12-24

Apresenta os textos da seção EM FOCO. A política de identidade:
uma perspectiva crítica na e sobre a arte teve o objetivo de reunir textos
que pudessem problematizar as identidades em um momento em que
surgem novos discursos críticos às identidades, agora produzidos por uma
série de intelectuais progressistas, de esquerda e/ou liberais.

Writings of the Self, Identifications, and the Theater:

ALBERTO FERREIRA DA ROCHA JUNIOR — 2025-12-24

This article aims to reflect on the relationships between identity issues, the theatrical performance, and the writings of the self, based on an analysis of the creative process and staging of two plays: "Little Excesses" and "Greta Garbo: Who Would Have Thought? Loved Me to death," both products of research projects. Based on these two performances, we demonstrate how the boundaries between characters and actors/actresses can be fluid, shifting between identification and disidentification processes, forcing the audience to reflect on these processes rather than offering ready-made answers. The article addresses dissident sexualities, based on Muñoz (1999) and Rolnik (2018).

Teatros Feministas e democracia

Daiane Dordete Steckert Jacobs — 2025-12-24

Este artigo analisa como os Teatros Feministas, em suas diversas linguagens, pautas e abordagens, estruturam – a partir de produções que se cruzam com as atividades de ensino, pesquisa e extensão da UDESC (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil) – discussões políticas que refletem a fragilidade da incipiente democracia brasileira. Muitas garantias constitucionais ainda não foram concretizadas, e essas demandas continuam encontrando no teatro um espaço propício para denúncia e discussão. No Brasil recente, vivenciamos um golpe de Estado contra a presidente eleita Dilma Rousseff em 2016 e a eleição de um presidente ultraconservador e neoliberal, cujo mandato (2019-2022) foi fortemente marcado pelo desmonte de políticas públicas nas áreas de cultura e educação. Nesse contexto, analisarei cinco trabalhos desenvolvidos no Departamento de Artes Cênicas e no Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes Cênicas da UDESC neste período pós-golpe de 2016, contextualizando-os no campo dos Teatros Feministas e discutindo como temas políticos relacionados a pautas democráticas brasileiras foram abordados nos espetáculos: “Celas e Elas”, com direção e dramaturgia de Daiane Dordete e atuação de Samira Sinara; “Nenhuma a Menos”, de Stephanie Liz Polidoro; “Canto para quem é de noite”, do Coletivo Nega; “Bruxas, Santas, Loucas, Velhas, Meninas, Belas, Recatadas e do Lar”, de Jussyanne Emídio; e “Arapuca”, de Cae Linn Beck da Silva.

Geni é bicha: dissidência queer, performatividade e disputas de sentido

Djalma Thürler — 2025-12-24

This article offers a critical analysis of Ópera do Malandro, by Chico Buarque, with emphasis on the dramaturgical construction of the character Geni. Focusing on Buarque’s lesser-known work as a playwright, it examines how the play adopts strategies from Brechtian epic theatre to build an ambivalent and ironic critique of the social order. The study revisits the original characterization of Geni/Genivaldo—a feminine male figure—in order to question recent identity-based interpretations that seek to normalize their gender identity. Drawing on the concept of “gender perfactibility” (Colling et al.) and queer critiques of post-truth logic, the article addresses the controversy surrounding the casting of actress Thainá Duarte in the film Geni e o Zepelim, directed by Anna Muylaert. In dialogue with the aims of the thematic issue, this work interrogates the role of identity in contemporary critical art, arguing that Geni, in their performative ambiguity, challenges both traditional notions of masculinity and current imperatives of representational politics, emerging as a dissident queer figure who resists fixed taxonomies of recognition.

Dramatização sobre monumentos coloniais e práticas decoloniais

Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Woyda — 2025-12-24

A dramatization about colonial monuments and decolonial practices, this work is based on the theoretical-methodological approach of queer dismantling of the monumental to critically reflect on symbolic disputes surrounding memory and history. Taking as a turning point the death of George Floyd (in 2020) and the subsequent global wave of protests against colonial monuments—with episodes recorded in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Brazil—the work proposes a dramaturgical fictionalization of the burning of the statue of bandeirante Borba Gato, which occurred in São Paulo (in 2021). Through an exchange of messages between three female characters, a non-canonical narrative is constructed, challenging normative practices and questioning conventions of academic writing. By adopting a dramaturgical and essayistic aesthetic, the text aims to both propose new forms of knowledge production and critically discuss the legacies of colonial history.

LGBTI+ Decolonial Hermeneutics and Performative Censorship in Contemporary Brazil

Anderson Gomes Paes Barretto — 2025-12-24

This article analyzes censorship of LGBTI+ performances in contemporary Brazil, focusing on emblematic cases such as the Queermuseu exhibition (2017) and the play O Evangelho Segundo Jesus, Rainha do Céu (2019), to denounce the existence of a political and performative movement against the legitimization of identities that dissent from the cisgender and heterosexual norm. To analyze these cases, we propose a decolonial LGBTI+ hermeneutics as a critical reading method used to interpret LGBTI+ art from the period in question as texts that destabilize normativities and produce knowledge that disobeys colonial epistemological logic. The analysis proposes a sensitive perspective on aesthetic power as a form of resistance and identity affirmation.

Visual disassembly of combat performances that generate the citrus images of the tra

Marina Silvério da Silva — 2025-12-24

This article explores concepts I created as a transgender artist in the performance and visual arts scene, based on creative processes that result in performances that are dismantled and transformed into images. With a writing structure that critiques the normative models used by teachers in student assessments, which accompany us from basic education through academic training, the text explores the possibility that this normative identity construction also influences our gender performances and becomes embedded in behavior when it clashes with these models and standards to be followed from early childhood. It highlights the existence of disobedient transgender bodies that take a stand, research structural violence, and teach, giving voice to the existence of dissident identities, explaining these transcendent concepts and redesigning other free, rule-free ways of thinking and creating trans art.

Insurgent Pedagogies and Dissidente Visibility

José Rodolfo Lopes da Silva — 2025-12-24

This article analyzes how the photographic exhibitions Duo Drag (Brazil) and Cidade de Protesto (Portugal) operate as pedagogical technologies that mobilize identity performances in public space. Drawing on the concept of insurgent pedagogies, I investigate how dissidente bodies use performative strategies to challenge normative rationalities and (re)articulate representatios of gender and sexuality. The methodology combines image analysis, interviews with participants, and theoretical grounding in performance studies and queer theory. The findings reveal that photographic exhibitions function as curatorial devices capable of transforming spectators into co-participants in processes of destabilization and recognition. It is concluded that such practices constitute contemporary forms of the aesthetic and political activation, in which art acts as a vehicle for political and subjective transformation.

Da celebração e solidariedade ao pessimismo: reflexões sobre cinco exposições de artistas negros/as em museus de Nova York

Leandro Colling — 2025-12-24

The text deals with five major exhibitions that were on show in important museums located in New York City during the second half of June 2024 and highlights how they give us important clues about some of the main characteristics of black visual arts today and how they have been exposed and explained to the public. While some of them have more celebratory, Afrofuturist, and/or feminist aspects that mark black resistance, others dialogue more with Afro-pessimistic perspectives.