Towards a theatre with moving walls: archival research project

• Grant number: 22/02072-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2022
• End date: June 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Antônio Carlos de Araújo Silva
• Grantee: Diego Fernandes Garcia Moschkovich
• Supervisor: Vadim Shcherbakov
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: State Institute for Art Studies, Russia
• Associated to the scholarship: 20/04798-0 - A theatre with moving walls: Stanislavski's last and unfinished revolution, BP.DR

Abstract

It is generally accepted that Konstantin Stanislvsy's last period of work (1935 - 1938) is the synthesis of his life-long theatrical searches. Nevertheless, the evidence previously found at the Moscow Art Theatre Museum Archives suggests that the Russian master's work in the 1930s was something else: a new and radical paradigmatic change in performance structures. This change was never completed, though, for after Stanislavsky's death in 1938 the official Soviet theatre took hold also of his last laboratory. This project aims at obtaining funding for an Internship Abroad (BEPE) in order to research primary sources on the period kept at different archives in Russia, Europe and the United States. (AU)