Recommended Prior Knowledge

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Objectives

At the end of the curricular unit, students should be able to:

- Identify and understand the performative dimension in different contexts: on stage and in 'real' life.
- Define what performance is and the functions of performance.
- Master the basic concepts of performance and apply them to the analysis of social performance.
- Understand human performativity in social and professional intervention contexts.
- Understand the role of traditional and new media as a 'stage' for human performativity.
- Analyze something like performance.

Teaching Methods

The subject is taught based on the balance between theoretical-expository and participatory classes. Inspired by the Problem Based Learning methodology, case studies will be carried out on the topics covered and readings, presentations and reflections by students (individual and in groups) will be requested as a way to make the learning process interactive.

Internship(s)

Não

Syllabus

1. Performing arts and 'real' performance
performance studies
‘It’ performance vs. ‘how’ performance
'Real Life' Performance vs. stage performance
The types of performance
The functions of performance

2. The world is a stage: performance in 'real' life
Man as the only dramatic species
Representation and spectacle as structuring dimensions of 'real' life
Actors and social roles
Subject and representation
Performance and identities
The art of managing prints

3. Performance in traditional and new media.
Public figures and performance: life as a meticulously staged spectacle.
Persona: the public version of the self.
Persona as a performative identity on social media.

Content Explanation

The Performing Arts course focuses on the creation, production and public presentation of an artistic project involving different types of artistic modalities. Through the experience of creating a show, different procedures related to the various dimensions that make up creative processes will be approached, encouraging the development of theoretical, technical and artistic tools that enable imaginative and experimental practices that make it possible to articulate and establish meaningful connections between the arts and individual and collective creative work.

Methodology Explanation

The aim of the activities to be carried out is to create conditions that encourage learning and deepening of knowledge about the performing arts and creative processes, as well as participation in the construction of an original show with a public presentation, using different techniques, research, debate, experimentation and confrontation with the public, allowing for the integrated knowledge announced in the objectives, involving multimodal knowledge, understanding, appropriation and creation.

Responsible Lecturer(s)

Lídia Soraya Barreto Marôpo - 2.º Semester

Bibliography

Alexander, J. C.; Giesen, B.; Mast, J. L. (2006). Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Burke, P. (1992). O Mundo como Teatro: Estudos de Antropologia Histórica. Lisboa: Difel. Debord, G. (1972). A Sociedade do Espetáculo. Lisboa: Afrodite. Goffman, E. (1993). A Apresentação do Eu na Vida de Todos os Dias. Lisboa: Relógio D’Água.

Marshall, P. D.; Moore, C. & Barbour, K. (2020). Persona studies – an introduction. Nova Jersey: Wiley Blackwell.

Monteiro, P. F. (2010). Drama e Comunicação. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

Schechner, R. (2013). Performance Studies: An Introduction. Londres e Nova Iorque: Routledge.

Schechner, R. (2003). Performance Theory. Londres e Nova Iorque: Routledge. Turner, V. (1987). The Anthropology of Performance. Nova Iorque: PAJ.