The PPGArC - Graduate Program in Performing Arts represents an important achievement in the expansion and consequent development of research activities. The creation of the Program marks a decisive and indispensable step towards the insertion, affirmation and projection of the Performing Arts Area at local, regional and national level. It came about in the same year as the implementation of the degree course in Theatre, after thirty years of the creation of the former Artistic Education course in the Arts Department at UFRN. Since then, the area has seen significant demand from students and professionals looking to consolidate their respective training. The profile and qualifications of the program's teaching staff demonstrate the broad and interdisciplinary nature of its two research lines: Investigative Practices of the Stage: Poetics, Aesthetics and Pedagogies and Interfaces of the Stage: Politics, Performances, Culture and Space. The creation of the PPGArC came about as a way of intensifying the research field and the possible alternatives for the creation, reflection, production and reception of artistic processes in their respective social, political, aesthetic, educational and cultural contexts. The Program aims to broaden the theoretical, practical and methodological horizons of the activities of professionals in the field, in order to improve the training of artists, researchers and educators, seeking to integrate, whenever possible, theoretical-critical reflection on the making of theater in its permanent dialogue with other languages into the artistic experience. Our goal is to provide researchers in the arts, and specifically in the performing arts, with the opportunity to delve deeper into the Program's Lines of Research, thus contributing to a better understanding of the issues that guide its syntheses, knowledge, impasses, dynamics and means of apprehension.

Lines of Research

The PPGArC, Academic Master's Degree, is structured around 02 (two) Lines of Research, as follows:

Line I: INVESTIGATIVE STAGE PRACTICES: POETICS, AESTHETICS AND PEDAGOGIES - Studies on investigative stage practices and their creative processes. It covers training practices in the field of performing arts in dialog with the potential of the body and its aesthetic and poetic configurations.

Line II: INTERFACES OF THE SCENE: POLITICS, PERFORMANCES, SPACE AND TRADITIONS - Studies on the interfaces of the stage. It encompasses studies of historiography, scenic space and traditional cultures as a transdisciplinary proposal for reflection on the intersections involving artistic, pedagogical, political, performative and socio-cultural processes.