Transversal and Transferable Skills: Around the stage in 80 hours: the Theatre as a space of learning

Code:

CTT_VP801

Acronym:

CTT_VP80

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Performing Arts

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S (edição n.º 1)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Transversal and Transferable Skills: Around the stage in 80 hours: the Theatre as a space of learning

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CTT_VP80	27	Study plan	1	-	3	26	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The training unit's general objectives are to:
- Teach the multifaceted values of theatre of theatre as a theoretical-practical learning space.
- Promote, through individual and teamwork, personal and interpersonal development.
- Valuing collaborative, interdisciplinary and multicultural learning processes (of the individuals, themes and practices).
- Contribute to a well-rounded education which allows the student to simultaneously acquire linguistic, literary, artistic, scientific, social and ethical skills.
- Provide students with transversal and transferable skills learned and developed on site in a professional environment, which improveseir integration into the job market.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Know and recognize the importance of theatre as a learning space, in which one learns by doing, using the body and the mind.
- Develop a work of creation or interpretation, in which individual and teamwork are evident.
- Be aware of interpersonal, interdisciplinary and multicultural contributions in subjects / actors, in themes and in theatrical practices.
- Know how to read a text, not so much with the physical skills that allow you to vocalize a text, but with the intellectual and emotional skills that allow you to recognize and appreciate its various interpretations and ways it can be said.
- Apply, in diverse contexts, namely in a personal context or in a professional / social environment, the usefulness of some transversal and transferable skills: the relationship of the voice with movement, of gesture with the space, of the intellect with the body, of the theory with the practice, or the individual with the environment.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Reading the Space
   a) The different types of theatrical spaces. Guided visits to the spaces of the National Theatre of São João (TNSJ), Monastery of São Bento da Vitória (MSBV), Teatro Carlos Alberto (TeCA).
   b) The spaces in the theatre: stage, orchestra, backstage, rehearsal rooms, etc.
2. Reading the Text
   a) Types of reading.
   b) Face-to-face action: the text and the body.
3. The meanings of the performance
   a) Rehearsals.
   b) Representation.
4. Performance analysis
   a) Dialogue with the actors.
   b) Beyond dramaturgy.
5. Masterclass in reading with an artistic director.

Mandatory literature

ARISTÓTELES; Poética, pref. Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira e ed. Ana Maria Valente, Lisboa: F. C. Gulbenkian, 2018. ISBN: 978-972-31-1077-7
BORIE, M.; ROUGEMONT, M.; SCHERER, J. ; Estética Teatral. Textos de Platão a Brecht, trad. H. Barbas, Lisboa: F. C. Gulbenkian, 2011. ISBN: 978-972-31-0685-5
BROOK, P. ; O Espaço Vazio, trad. Rui Lopes, Lisboa: Orfeu Negro, 2016. ISBN: 978-989-955-651-5
CORVIN, M.; Dictionnaire encyclopédique du thêatre, Paris: Bordas, 1991. ISBN: 2040184562
MARTIN, J.; The Intercultural Performance Handbook, London/ N. York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 0-415-28188-1
PAVIS, P. ; Dicionário de Teatro. Trad. Maria Lúcia Pereira, J. Guinsburg, R. Fuser, E. Fraga e N. Fernandes, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1999. ISBN: 9788527302050
PY, O. ; Epístola aos Jovens Atores para que seja dada a palavra à palavra, ed. M. L. Malato, Porto, Deriva/ ILC, 2014. ISBN: 978-989-8701-08-4
SOLMER, A./ dir. ; Manual de Teatro, Lisboa: Temas e Debates, 2003. ISBN: 972-759-602-9
STANISLAWSKI, C. ; Manual do Actor, São Paulo, Martins Fontes, 1997. ISBN: 9788533607828
SPOLIN, V. ; Improvisação para o Teatro, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2000. ISBN: 9788527301398
UBERSFELD, A. ; Para ler Teatro. Trad. J. Simões, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2005. ISBN: 85-273-0732-4

Comments from the literature

Throughout the course, more specific bibliography can be pointed out.

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course starts with the action in theatre moving towards and covering the observation of theatre, going from the practice to the theoretical reflection. The student learns to see through doing. The various components of the syllabus are, in fact, different strategies of its methodology: the knowledge and understanding of the theatrical space, readings on stage, rehearsals, performance analysis, assistance, reading masterclasses with an artistic director. They intend to teach the importance of theatre as a learning space, valuing collaborative, interdisciplinary and multicultural learning processes so that the students may acquire skills that are simultaneously linguistic, artistic, scientific, social and ethical. The course provides students with transversal and transferable skills, learned and developed in an environment that contributes to their integration into life, society and the professional world.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	55,00
Frequência das aulas	26,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

Individual portfolio, with unpublished materials, resulting from the learning process throughout the semester.