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- Dancing in the dark: quando a Dança-Teatro encontra o VaudevillePublication . Marisa, CláudiaThe Band Wagon (Vicente Minnelli: 1953) starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse is a MGM musical that, as a substantial percentage of the musicals produced in Hollywood in the forties and fifties, has as main narrative line the backstage variety where putting on a show provided the strongest impetus for the plot. Though “The Band Wagon” also involves a love story, the putting-on-a-show theme tends to be central and the romantic plot becomes incidental. The film deliberately uses Astaire and Charisse as characters posing the question of whether they can dance together (with all that implies). The film suggests an idea of fusion of difference within dance identities replicating what was happening in the musical films industry: the shifting from vaudeville to a ballet-theatre style. Our main aim with this paper is to analyze the number “Dancing in the Dark” taking in account that the dancers, as characters and stars, represent two sets of values explicitly embodied in their dancing styles. He is the old Hollywood musical representing the purpose of “pure entertainment”; she, with her background in ballet, represents the new Hollywood musical, with its infusion of Ballet Theatre and its aspiration to be meaningful as well as entertaining.
- Metamorfoses: filme para uma narrativa coreografadaPublication . Marisa, Cláudia; Tudela, NunoMetamophosis is a film project, which will be presented as a case study that intends to explore the dialogue between dance, music and film in a collaborative/devising process. Our aim is to research the implications of film (and therefore its role) during an artistic process: from the writing of the script to endeavour the consequences in the performance practice (both the relation between the different art fields present here, and between these last and the method used). Many arguments about art assume that they are expressing the truth. However, and following Merleau-Ponty’s assertion that art does not provide us with access to the “Real”, but rather with a version of reality, one can note that artistic narratives move into fiction territories containing one or more implicit truths. Most narratives highlight neither the process of construction this “truth” nor the specific position from which this “truth” is being constructed. To do so would reveal the fact that this “truth” is a particular version authored by a particular person, and is thereby open to question and revision. One name given to these implicit truths is verisimilitude. The concept of verisimilitude needs to be embodied, that is recognized as a metaphor and paradigm. Thus the question is not whether film can/should be metaphorical, but what specific “metaphors” are performers to “live by”. Briefly, Metamorphosis is an artwork that considers the results achieved by the collaborative process, and envisages new possibilities in film, where both traditional choreographic forms and cinema strategies are mixed.
- When space becomes art: making sense in an aleatory worldPublication . Marisa, CláudiaThe aim of this paper is to discuss the concept of space as a site of ephemeral representations that gives us a glimpse of an aleatory artistic performance. Thus, one can conceive space as a representation of social relationships between people that are mediated by images. Consequently, it is through a physical space that people organise their own personal trajectory. Within this idea, one can argue that actions taking part in public spaces are performed according to shared rules within a known set of applications. Hence a polarisation effect is similar on a stage and on a daily life: there is always an interchange of roles between the “performer” (the promoter of the action) and the spectator (the witness of the action); and that interchange is crucial to the creation of a symbolic system. It appears that there is a semiotic and meaningful correspondence between scenic space (physical space of a performance) and other social spaces of representation. This paper proposes a phenomenological and aesthetic approach to “performative spaces”, suggesting implications and discussing various performative (concrete and fictional) places as scenic spaces of symbolic interaction. In doing so it confronts social-philosophical theories and multiple theatrical practices, proposing different ways to understand the concept of performance as a phylogenetic and cosmological experience. It also questions performance art as an event that promotes an interruption of daily-life routine and creates different perspectives of how life can be interpreted.
- Algures entre o corpo e a representaçãoPublication . Marisa, CláudiaThis paper reflects over the possibility of a body on stage becoming a dramaturgic language that is capable, through the (re)creation of reality, of attributing sense and meaning to the individual and interpersonal trajectories of performers and the audience, in a dialectic between life and its representations. The main reason for that reflection is found in studies about scenic arts, which state the non-existence of single process to analyse a performance; however, several methods exist that express diverse creation and reception models, in a participating and interactive relation through which interpreters and spectators build their identity around a common "scenic body".
- When space becomes artPublication . Marisa, CláudiaPeter Brook claims that a space shared by the “emitter” and “receptor” is an intrinsic element of artistic interaction. We can therefore argue that actions taking place in public spaces are performed according to shared rules within a known set of expectations. There is always an interchange of roles between the “emitter” (or performer; the promoter of the action) and the “receptor” (or spectator; the witness of the action). This interchange is crucial to the creation of a symbolic system. It follows therefore that all kinds of space are – potentially – scenic spaces. It is worth mentioning that it was not until Richard Wagner insisted on turning off the lights in the auditorium that the stage became a “solo” space. Until then, theatre architecture included the audience in the event of the play.
- Porque é que queres dançar? Porque é que queres viver? A glorificação da fragilidade da vida no filme The Red ShoesPublication . Marisa, CláudiaThe Red Shoes (Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger: 1948) expresses the burning need for art, revealing anguished artists struggling for a transcendent pirouette. Other films have given us ballet, but generally as an interlude, but in this film the characters live for ballet and nothing but ballet; one of them even dies for it. Indeed the theme of the film is artistic dedication, even unto death. The script is adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s tale: “The girl whose shoes danced away with her, through the streets and over the hills and far away to death itself”. One can note two plot lines in The Red Shoes: the first is a traditional Hollywood romance about a young ballerina who becomes a meteoric sensation and falls in love with the composer of the ballet that was inspired by her; the second, that looks more menacing, involves obsession, manipulation and control. In this paper we aim to analyze The Red Shoes taking in account: (i) The film is an atypical musical that goes well beyond the confines of a “backstage musical” into areas richer, deeper, and darker than any such film had ventured toward before—or would after; (ii) the acting, taking artistic expression through dance so seriously, is taken by several of the foremost and most legendary ballet dancers of its era, and this fact will be crucial for the ballet history, namely concerning dance interpretation.
- Agir num mundo imprevisívelPublication . Marisa, CláudiaThis paper proposes a phenomenological and aesthetic approach to “performative spaces”, suggesting implications and discussing various performative (real and fictional) places as scenic spaces of symbolic interaction. In doing so it confronts social-philosophical theories and multiple theatrical practices, proposing different ways to understand the concept of scenic space.
- Ecos da memória colonial na filmografia de Margarida Cardoso e Miguel GomesPublication . Marisa, Cláudia; Passos, SóniaIn more recent times we are starting to come across more frequent artistic perspectives that echo the Portuguese colonial history from a metaphorical representation. Accordingly, one can affirm that a revisiting of a factual episode, within an artistic context, infers the reinterpretation of the given event; in doing so, it alters the meaning of reality. Through cinema “story” becomes “History”, as a film is in itself a document. The scripts have thus mutual aspects: The need to understand the colonial history in Africa; the questioning of the concept of “Empire”; the role of the revolutionary hero; the unbearable grief of those who stayed behind and those who have returned. Having in mind these assumptions we will analyze the representations of the colonial memory in the following films: A Costa dos Murmúrios (Margarida Cardoso, 2004); Tabu (Miguel Gomes: 2012); Yvone Kane (Margarida Cardoso: 2014).
- Exercícios de representação: simulacro e vida na criação da personagemPublication . Marisa, CláudiaWithin a film analysis the character proves to be a constitutive element of representation being at the root of the dramaturgical discourse. Thus the character, as an “actant being” amongst the boundaries of fiction and life, is traversed by artistic invention, historical facts and biographical reflection. Traditionally, the character has had the function, through verisimilitude, to enable the audience to project their own life counteracting what one has / is with a contemplation of what one could have / be. Hence through character's lives one can have the possibility to overcome failures and disappointments. Currently we observe the advent of new character building models that emphasize the resourceful aptitude of the transmutation of the Self as well as its constant reinvention through an autobiographical discourse. This new proposal aims to develop in the audience an urge to personal change through contact with characters that have a direct reference to contemporary reality. This way the character reveals itself as a possibility of reinventing existence and interactions with others in a direct transposition with our daily-life. This paper aims to analyze these dramaturgical proposals of “daily-life-characters” supported, for that purpose, on mike Leigh’s film happy-go-lucky (2008).
- O espaço como exercício de representaçãoPublication . Marisa, CláudiaThis paper proposes a phenomenological and aesthetic approach to “performative spaces”, suggesting implications and discussing various performative (real and fictional) places as scenic spaces of symbolic interaction. In doing so it confronts social-philosophical theories and multiple theatrical practices, proposing different ways to understand the concept of scenic space. It also questions performance art as an event that takes place between performers and spectators in a given space and time. In this process, embodiment is the structuring element of this new aesthetic behaviour.