The Territories Theatre is a free initiative aimed at students from various locations who are in São Paulo studying undergraduate and graduate programs at USP.
Primarily targeted at residents of the USP Residential Complex (CRUSP), it aims to welcome immigrants and migrants to a free theater workshop without any prior knowledge of performing arts required. Registrations are done online until March 15, through a form. Click here!
Conceived by Maria Tendlau, a dramatic arts instructor at TUSP, the course, which will be held in the TUSP Butantã room at the Camargo Guarnieri Cultural Center, arose from the idea of creating a space for integration with different cultural references.
“It was a desire of mine, shared with TUSP management, to be able to work with Latin American theater. I began to notice many Latin immigrants, residents of CRUSP, as well as several graduate students from various African countries. It made me want to bring these people together because it’s difficult to be a foreigner, to be in another place, wearing oneself out with studies. It’s a moment for these people to exchange, get to know each other, and relax a bit from the dynamics of the University, which can sometimes be quite demanding.”
The name Territories Theater was chosen by Tendlau with the intention of finding a common territory for people from different locations. The course is divided into three bases: it will work on performative and self-fiction practices, based on material brought by the students, as well as simple scenic relationship games and composition techniques called viewpoints with spatiality games.
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The classes will be taught by Maria Tendlau, who has experience with amateur theater. She was the coordinator and creator of the vocational theater project in the city of São Paulo, invited by the actor and theater director Celso Frateschi during his tenure in the early 2000s at the City’s Secretary of Culture. The vocational program still exists today and has expanded to other arts.
“I have no preference for working with people who are already in theater. I have always liked vocational theater, amateur theater. I founded and coordinated the vocational theater project in the city of São Paulo, which is exactly a theater for people who like it and have the desire to know more. I have a special appreciation for a theater that is made by people who are not from the performing arts,” she emphasizes.
The dramatic arts instructor highlights the extensionist character. “Theater is a very inclusive place, it accepts diversity like few others and proposes various forms of expression, and talent and technique are not necessarily required, it’s very free. We work from games that propose situations in which participants feel comfortable in a collective creation process,” Tendlau adds.
The course will be held from March 22 to June 28, on Fridays, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., with 30 vacancies available. If registrations exceed the number of vacancies, priority will be given to CRUSP residents in the order of registration.
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Territories Theater – theater course aimed at immigrant students
The USP Theater (TUSP) is currently accepting applications for the Territories Theater course. The free initiative is aimed at students from various locations who are in São Paulo studying undergraduate and graduate programs at USP. No prior knowledge of performing arts is required. Registrations are done online until March 15, through the google forms: Click here!
The course will be held from March 22 to June 28, on Fridays, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Camargo Guarnieri Cultural Center, located at Rua do Anfiteatro, 109, Butantã campus of USP. There will be 30 vacancies available.
More information at usp.br/tusp or on Instagram @tusp.teatrodausp