The demand of theatrical research: on a theatre performance created in academic context

Abstract

The progressive institutionalization of the arts in academic curricula forces us to think about artistic practices in the context of research, namely, about what the artist-researcher will have to add to the act of creation so that it can also be considered an act of research. This paper rehearses a possibility of self-reflexive verbalization related to a theatrical performance created in an academic context, as a central element of a master 's project of a student that I directed and in which I also was a co-creator, as theatrical director and director of actors. In it, I reflect on questions of artistic research that were present during the creation process, I describe the methodologies adopted to solve them and analyze the results