CHRISTINE ZURBACH AND JOSÉ ALBERTO FERREIRA
Wireless conversations
may 24th - 11:00 PM
CINETEATRO CURVO SEMEDO
may 31st - 11:00 PM
Alma Box
Age Rating: All Ages
Free Entry
The customary talk on puppet theatre included in the 16th Montemor-o-Novo International Puppet Festival (EIMMN), on 25 and 31 May, brings together artists, the public and researchers of puppet theatre.
This year’s topic of discussion, ‘Puppet Theatre: the Street and the Room’, seeks to encourage reflection on the current contours of this form of theatre, taking into account the specificity of the practices adopted by artists and companies, and the place of the puppet in contemporary theatre and cultural life.
The sessions are intended to be an open space for discussion. The artists will explain their artistic and aesthetic choices, which are embodied in the performances presented at the Festival. The researchers, in dialogue with the artists, will moderate interventions by the audience, the main addressee of these talks.
Christine Zurbach
Retired tenured professor from the Évora University School of Fine Arts, where she taught performing arts, drama, theatre history, puppetry and theatre translation. She completed her PhD at the University of Évora in 1997 with the thesis Tradução e Prática do Teatro em Portugal de 1975 a 1988 (Colibri, 2002). She conducts research in the fields of theatre studies and translation studies, and has published papers in national and international journals on playwriting, theatre translation and puppetry.
José Alberto Ferreira
José is a lecturer at the University of Évora’s Performing Arts Department. He is a member of several research groups focusing on the fields of theatre and text editing. He is a collaborating member of the Évora University’s Centre for Art History and Artistic Research (CHAIA). He has collaborated on several national and international journals and magazines.
He published Uma discreta invençam (2004), about Gil Vicente, Escrita na paisagem (2005), Por dar-nos perdão (2006), Autos, Passos e Bailinhos. Os textos dos Bonecos de Santo Aleixo (2007), co-edited (with Christine Zurbach and Paula Seixas), Da vida das marionetas.
Ensaios sobre os bonecos de Santo Aleixo (2015), and Teatro do Vestido, um dicionário (2018). He coordinated the organisation of the first database with a systematic description of the inventory of the Bonecos de Santo Aleixo puppets (2005-2007). He collaborates with several training organisations, festivals and institutions in the area of artistic and cultural programming. He directed the Escrita na Paisagem Festival (2004-2012) and he has been the artistic director of the Art and Culture Centre of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation since 2018.
