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- Modernism and the Portuguese Teatro de RevistaPublication . Palinhos, JorgeLargely due to the conservatism of audiences and critics, Portuguese theatre was mostly indifferent, if not downright hostile, to the avant-garde theatre coming from elsewhere in Europe. Therefore, naturalistic theatre and historical drama were the staple of Portuguese theatres until the 1950s, with the only exception of the plays of Almada Negreiros and symbolist plays by Fernando Pessoa, Raul Brandão and António Patrício. However, modernism found its place on stage in one of the most typical Portuguese theatre forms: «Revista à Portuguesa», the Portuguese revue theatre, which welcomed the first generation of Portuguese modernist painters to work as set and costume designers. Artists like Jorge Barradas, Milly Possoz, José Barbosa, among others, took the influence of the Ballets Russes of Diaghlev, and the avant-garde visual arts, to change the appearance of the most typically Portuguese theatre genre, Revista à Portuguesa. With this paper I will try to document how modernist painters gained entry in «Revista à Portuguesa» and created an art that fused the commercial interests of theatre entrepreneurs, the tastes of the bourgeois audiences and their own artistic sensibilities.
- A Review of the Colloquium «Narrative, Media and Cognition» — a Cartography of the Borders of NarrativePublication . Castro, Maria Guilhermina; Caires, Carlos Sena; Ribas, Daniel; Palinhos, JorgeWe present an overview and discussion of the Colloquium «Narrative, Media and Cognition», which took place at Porto's Centre of Catholic University of Portugal in July of 2015, under the organization of the Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR). Several scholars of different areas presented research about the uses and advances in narrative study and practice in a broad range of areas, giving some important insights about the latest developments in Narrative Studies, Ontology of Narrative and the uses of Narrative in Art, Cinema, Performance, Journalism, Marketing and Literature, among other fields. After briefly describing the main points of each presentation in the Colloquium we try to draw some conclusions and possibilities raised by the Colloquium and take a glimpse of future paths that the use of Narrative can end up taking.
- Space and Performance - Researching place and gesture in real settingsPublication . Palinhos, JorgeAlthough architecture and cinema or architecture and photography are two well developed fields of study, the connection between theatre and architecture has raised less awareness from academia. The purpose of the Dramatic Architectures project was to gather these two fields, find new ways of understanding their connections, namely the issues of gesture and space, researching the common areas of the two fields, and establish a methodology of research. For its subject, several possibilities were considered: the architecture of theatres, the connection between creative processes of both areas, site-specific theatre, the questions of light and sound in space, etc. For the time being, the project decided to focus on the research of site-specific theatre. Site-specific art is a common artform since the 60s that attempts to create works around specific places, attempting to raise the awareness about the place or attempting to change the aforementioned place. Originally, site-specific art, according to Mion Kwon, attempted to draw attention to the specific conditions of production and presentation of works of art, but later it was used to draw attention to broader cultural and social issues connected with each place. In my presentation, I aim to propose a methodology of research for site-specific theatre that highlights both the dramatic, performative and architectonic elements of site-specific theatre. Based on the analysis of The Rest of the World, a site-specific performance by Visões Úteis that took place in a taxi across Porto, I will try to define boundaries of research and methods to investigate the connections between space and performance, for the audience, in site-specific theatre, that can enlighten the hidden meanings and affects of space and gesture against a real setting.
- Staging the World: Performance Space as an Unified Field of Drama and SocietyPublication . Palinhos, Jorge«All the world is a stage», wrote Petronius, and the same was repeated by William Shakespeare plagiarizing the Roman writer. They were both wrong, because in both their lives, the world – or at least the theatrical world – was not all of it a stage. In fact, according to Jean Duvignaud, theatre was defined by two polarizing spaces: the stage and the audience. The first where the drama took place, the second where the drama was supported and socialized by its watchers. However, contemporary stage somehow breathed life to the dream – or nightmare - of Petronius and Shakespeare. That was what Walter Benjamin already felt in epic theatre, noting that in his time the “dead people” on stage and the living people in the audience were mingling more and more, and the frontier that divided them was becoming more and more blurry, so that the Magic Circle of Johan Huizinga or the Magical Conclave of Jean Duvignaud became more and more all-encompassing, turning all the world into a stage, but also the stage into a world. Drawing from the classical and contemporary theories and ideas of Aristotle, Georg Simmel, Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois, Walter Benjamin, Erving Goffman, Jean Duvignaud, Raymond Williams, Richard Schechner, Miwon Kwon, Cathy Turner, Markus Montola and Ian Bogost about drama, performance, game, and adventure, and also on concepts of social theory and the theories of action, I will try to understand the meaning, impact and limitations of fictional interventions in real space, focusing on a anecdote told by the renowned theatre director and thinker, Anne Bogart, to try to understand the particular relationship between performance and space and the impact that it can have on their creators, participants, spectators and on the surrounding environment.