Class Stage Set

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

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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

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. 70% of the total value of the assessment, attendance (20%), participation of students in practical and theoretical classes (10 %). Individual exercises will be evaluate in the following proportion: Desenhar uma personagem (15%), Espaço cénico para uma história (15%), Relatório Visita aos Teatros (20%) e Trabalho Criadores Cénicos (20%).

WILES, David. A Short History of Western Performance Space . Cambridge: Cambridge University, Press, 2003. MCKINNEY, Joslin and Philip Butterworth. The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. HOWARD, Pamela. What is Scenography? Oxford: Routledge, 2009.