Programme
Performing Arts - Actors Training
Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 4
Year | Type of course unit | Language
1 |Mandatory |Português
Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)
100 | 45
Code
ULP1977-15444
Recommended complementary curricular units
n/a
Mode of study
Face-to-face
Precedences
Não
Professional Internship
Não
Syllabus
This course intends to provide an overview of the subject area of scenography through an organized theoretical approach from the following aspects: - Knowledge of the basics of the performing arts culture; - What is scenography; - Definition and professional setting of the stage designer in the production of the show; - Historical perspective of the architecture and the evolution of the spaces of representation; - Typologies of a Stage: Notion of the Theatrical Space; - Stage Planning and Curtain Types; - Field of Technical vocabulary: Codes and Terminology. The proposed methodology involves the creation of a scenic device/setting for a theatre text, comprising: - Text Reading and lifting the dramaturgical framework; - Survey of the measures of the Plant and Elevations of the chosen space for the accomplishment of the scenic device; - Construction of the model of the space; - Sketches, drawings and illustration of the device to be performed; - Construction of a model of the scenario.
Objectives
This curricular unit should contain the basic tools for the elaboration of a scenography work process through principles of communication and knowledge in the field of design, construction and presentation of an event, theater show. Develop conceptual knowledge, means of investigation and communication. Particular ways of doing a scenography composition process.
Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
The student should:
- Learn the key points of the evolution of the scenic space;
- Framing scenography and its processes in the dynamics of theatrical and performative production;
- Understand scenography as a platform for dialogue with other creative areas;
- Develop conceptual knowledge, means of investigation and communication;
- Develop and extend knowledge;
- Interrelate elements and plastic languages.
- Master the technical vocabulary;
- Conduct a comparative analysis between languages and types of scenography interventions;
- To master clearly all phases of the project;
- Acquiring collective work habits;
- Develop studies and sketches;
- Appreciate methods of representation by free hand;
- To study the most suitable materials and means for carrying out the project;
- Know how to design and execute a model of a scenario for a show;
- Execute study models;
- Implement the project in the intervention space.
Teaching methodologies and assessment
In a perspective of approximation to the real context, the project and the development of the capacity for critical reflection on the project are valued.
Students should develop their own competencies in an eminently practical and experimental approach to the project, in its different phases: definition and foundation of the concept, study and development of appropriate formal solutions, final materialization of the proposal, involving technical and constructive aspects.
The evaluation will be continuous, being considered essential the assiduity and the active participation of the students in the practical and theoretical classes, as well as in the evaluation sessions.
The evaluation will mainly focus on the development of individual work, and the results of the evaluation will correspond to a percentage of 70% of the total value of the assessment, attendance (20%), participation of students in practical and theoretical classes (10 %).
References
BROCKETT, Oscar, "History of the Theatre", Allyn and Bacon, U.S.A
BUZZICHELLI, Piero "Element di spazio scenico - Nomenclatura teatrale", AAlinea editrice.
DEGAINÉE, André, ¿Histore du theatre Dessinée¿, Nizet.
HARTROLL, Phullis "The Theater - A Concise History", Thames & Hudson/World of Art.
HOWARD, Pamela, ¿What is Scenography?¿. Routledge, London,
MANCINI, Franco, ¿L¿Evoluzione dello Spazio Scenico: Dal Naturalismo al Teatro Épico¿. Edizioni Dedalo, Bari.
MELLO, Bruno, "Tratado da Discenotecnia", Deagostini.
NERO, Cyro del, "Maquina para os Deuses - Anotações de um cenografo e o discurso de cenografia". Senac.
NIEVA, Francisco, ¿Tratado de Escenografia¿. Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid,
LISTA, Giovanni, "La scène moderne: encyclopédie mondiale des arts du spectacle dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle", Paris, Actes Sud.
OLIVA, César e Francisco Monreal, ¿Historia básica del arte escenico¿. Cátedra, Madrid.
PEDRO, António, ¿Pequeno Tratado de Encenação¿. Porto: Edit. Confluência.