O ensino técnico em teatro: conformação ou resistência?

Abstract

This text deals with professional education in arts. It aims to analyze the trajectory of technical teaching in Theater at the Federal University of Pará, its purposes and contradictions, in the scope of professional education. The methodology used was the case study and the approach was considered qualitative. Semi-structured interviews and document analysis were used. The interviews revealed that the School of Theater and Dance and alongside the training of theater professionals, went through four phases: the golden phase of creation, the phase of decay; the renovation phase and; the institutionalization phase. We can conclude that having a theater course (which for decades existed freely and now in an institutionalized way) in professional education, in spite of all the limitations of this teaching method, means for the theater school and for the formation of an artist a question of survival and the guarantee of continuity in the formation and legitimation of art inside the academy, which appears to be conformation, reveals itself as resistance.