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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Conrado Dess is a researcher, theater director, and playwright. He graduated in Performing Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo (ECA/USP), with an emphasis on Theater Theory (2017). He holds a Master's degree (2021) and is a Ph.D. candidate in Performing Arts at the same institution, both under the supervision of Sílvia Fernandes and supported by a FAPESP scholarship. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Lisbon, under the supervision of José Maria Vieira Mendes. He completed a master's research internship at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid, Spain) under the supervision of Óscar Cornago (2020) and a doctoral research internship at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) under the supervision of Achille Mbembe (2023), both supported by a BEPE-FAPESP scholarship. His research focuses on theater and race, emphasizing representation in the performing arts and the aesthetic, political, and social implications of the presence of Black bodies in contemporary theater. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Considering the historical and social circumstances that determined the formation of Brazilian society and that culminated in the structural racism that blights the theater produced in Brazil today, this doctoral research proposes an investigation on the role that the skin color of a performer can play in the production of meanings in contemporary theater. Through a practical experiment, …
This project aims to investigate the possibilities of the concept of representativeness as a tool to integrate the theater scene and the social reality of specific communities. In order to do so, it proposes the construction of a theoretical framework that allows an in-depth study of the implications and distinctions between the concepts of representation and representativeness in the con…
This project aims to study the performativity construction procedures within the theatrical creation process. Adopting the performance and performativity concepts defined by essayist Josette Feral, I propose here the identification of creating scenes mechanisms whose core is built on those two concepts , as well as the description and analysis of results obtained in them . From this on, t…
The doctoral research titled 'Corpo, Performance e Identidade: Notas sobre a Presença Negra na Cena' proposes an investigation into the presence of Black individuals in the performing arts, emphasizing the meanings generated by the Black body in contemporary theater. The study aims to examine how the concept of race operates within the performing arts realm, distorting the representation…
The research internship project aims to deepen the investigations that have been developed in the doctorate research Black skin, White characters, concerning intersections between Theatre and Race. Considering Brazilian historical, political, and social context, we seek a better understanding of the role that the skin color of an actor may play in the production of meanings within the con…
The present project aims to verticalize the research that has been developed in the ECA/USP Performing Arts Postgraduate Program on the concepts of representation and representativeness in the contemporary scene. Through the contact between the material collected during the creation of the play Refúgio, new work by Cia. Marginal that will address the issue of Angolan immigration at the Co…
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