{"id":1467,"date":"2024-09-03T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2024-09-26T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:30:27","slug":"presence-as-a-research-field-in-the-performing-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/2024\/09\/03\/presence-as-a-research-field-in-the-performing-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Presence as a research field in the performing arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ligia Souza, writer, researcher, professor, and editor. She is a postdoctoral researcher at LabDrama (Laboratory for Dramaturgy and Performative Writing at the Institute of Arts, UNICAMP). She holds a Ph.D. in Performing Arts from USP and a Master\u2019s degree in Literature from UFPR. Currently, she is conducting research at the D\u00e9partement Arts of ENS\/PSL – \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Paris, France. She is the founder and editor of la lettre cr\u00e9ation, which publishes contemporary Brazilian dramaturgy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The concept of presence is a central theme in contemporary studies on the Performing Arts. In this sense, Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presen\u00e7a<\/em> aligns with this centrality, featuring publications that directly discuss this notion and others that expand its proposition, the Journal already has over 40 issues. The first two editions present a more in-depth reflection on the topic: both titled \u201cPresence\u201d, and initiate discussions with international contributions from scholars like Jean Fran\u00e7ois Dusigne, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Marvin Carlson, Richard Schechner, Hans-Thies Lehmann, and Brazilian researchers like Gilberto Icle, Beatriz \u00c2ngela Vieira Cabral, Luiz Fernando Ramos, Maria de Lourdes Rabetti, among others.<\/p>\n

It is not just about conceptual discussions on the topic, but primarily about possible connections with various practices: “presence is not just the theme but the network through which discussions about the actor, the scene, performance, and ethnoscenology are intertwined” (Alc\u00e2ntara et al., 2011, p. 263).<\/p>\n

The issues also intensely discuss plural reflections on presence, such as in volume 10, issue 1<\/a>, titled “Performance Philosophy”, in which we highlight the article Boundaries between Performance Arts and Philosophy<\/a> by Professor Charles Feitosa. The title raises questions already addressed in the video of this post. In the article, the researcher explores possible intersections between theoretical and philosophical abstraction and the practice of performance, problematizing\u00a0 concepts such as “border” and “presence”.<\/p>\n

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