Brazilian Performing Arts
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33Z_OP_B0025
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Abada Editores , Madrid, Spain
- ISBN
- 978-84-17301-08-8
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The co-edited volume _Brazilian Performing Arts_ (287pp.) is the result of a research project spanning over ten years (beginning with Dundjerović’s appointment as visiting professor at the University of São Paolo in 2007, and supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2009). The principal research output presented here is Dundjerović’s sole authored chapter, ‘Theatre of Anthropophagy’ (pp.81-109), which offers a novel critical theory and analysis of practice. But this chapter needs to be understood within the intellectual project of the book as a whole, for which Dundjerović provided the overall research frame, as well as authoring the Introduction; an interview with Paul Heritage, the leading Brazilian cultural producer in the UK; and co-authoring the Conclusion, summarising the critical scholarly thought and practitioners’ experiences.
The book offers a window on the rich experience of Brazilian culture, with contributions from Brazilian, Canadian and European scholars. It aims to reflect different perspectives on Brazilian contemporary performing arts from theatre practice to performance art, dance, community, multimedia and visual art and collaborative theatre-making. The primary focus is on performance-making through adaptation of the starting material through multiple art forms and media. The research aim was to investigate interdisciplinarity as a platform to create, and to adapt the material; not through literary adaptation, but rather investigating adaptation through collaborative performance practices including theatre, community and street performance, popular culture and carnival. Another important objective was to look at performance practice through the different perspectives of leading national and international scholars, combining styles of presentation through essays, reflection on performance practice and an interview. The focus on the rich creative practices that formulate a contemporary Brazilian performing arts landscape included extensive examination of relevant sources and theories for Brazilian theatre practice, conducted in collaboration with the University of São Paolo’s graduate research centre in performing arts.
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- Non-English
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