THE ACTOR/ACTRESS’ CREATIVE PROCESS AS AN EXERCISE OF “DIFFERENCE”
In the second edition of the (Un)safe Conversations, we invited Vítor Lemos to talk about the actor/actress’ creative process as an exercise of “difference” through the appropriation of Stanislavski’s physical actions. Following his post-doctoral research, the experienced director and pedagogue has been revisiting the Russian system strategies based on assumptions of contemporary theatre to provide the actor and actress a privileged contact with the unknown dimension that exists in everything that surrounds and crosses them on the scene. The action that results from this contact shakes stable conceptions of the “self” and the circumstances in which it is created – as shown by the practices developed in the O Canto do Bode studio, where the actors and actresses had been continually defied, even in a fictional context, to turn their creative processes into processes of subjectification. In this conversation, Vitor Lemos will address the principles and the methodology that have been guiding his pedagogical and artistic approach, not only in light of the critical thinking around stage acting but also taking into consideration the potential of his work as a force of articulation of “difference” in political, social and cultural life.
Open Call for Participation
The event will be held in Portuguese and have a limited number of participants. To register, applicants should send an e-mail to unsafeseries@gmail.com, from which they will then receive the final instructions to join in the online talk.
Organization: Maíra Santos & Gustavo Vicente (Centro de Estudos de Teatro – Universidade de Lisboa)
Date: 11 December 2020, 17h-19h/Lisbon time (WET, GMT+1)
Online conference platform: Zoom
(Un)safe Conversations is a series of online talks with invited artists, scholars, and free thinkers about the study of the arts. This is one of the Centre for Theatre Studies’ strategies to look for new forms of togetherness and collective thinking in the current social situation while maintaining a provocative stream of academic discussions.
* Vitor Lemos is a director and theatre pedagogue. He has a Master’s degree in Theatre from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO – 2000), and a Ph.D. in Letters, Literature, and Contemporaneity from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, (PUC-RJ – 2016). He was a Lecturer in prestigious educational institutions in Brazil, such as the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), and the Cândido Mendes University (UCAM) – where he created and coordinated the Theatre Program for several years. He has staged 18 performances in the professional circuit of Rio de Janeiro. For the last four years, Vitor has been living in Lisbon, where he was Director of the Chapitô circus school. Currently, he is a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Évora and professor at the Inimpetus – Escola de Actores, and the Academia Mundo das Artes (AMA). As a researcher, he is a member of the Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon, where he researches the actor´s creative processes in the studio O Canto do Bode.
