Arts of Cultural Performance

Presentation

This bachelor’s course in the Arts of Cultural Performance aims at the training of a professional profile, capable of answering the current demands within the area of the performative arts. In this sense, this study cycle provides the acquisition of interpersonal, systemic and instrumental skills, capable of assuring working tools suitable to:

Design, promote and evaluate cultural projects;
Diagnose cultural problems in social intervention contexts;
Make the articulation among cultural equipment, institutions and services;
Develop team work.

Coordinator: Professor Ricardo Cavadas

Career Opportunities

The aim of the course is to train professionals whose plural competence, versatility and flexibility of the professional profile is adapted both to the private initiative and to the performance of functions in municipalities, foundations, museums, libraries, artistic and cultural production companies, leisure collectivities, educational services, tourism enterprises, private social solidarity institutions, adult education and training centers, cultural and recreational associations within local and community development. Among others, the activities to be performed by these professionals will be:

Cultural performance;
Cultural events organizer and coordinator;
Exhibitions organizer and coordinator;
Artistic programmer;
Cultural events producer;
Artistic director, curator, exhibitions curator;
Performing arts producer.

Study Plan

*1º year* *1º Semester*
*Code*	*Curricular Unit*	*Plano*	*Work Hours*	*Contact Hours*	*ECTS*	*ECTS File*
31819300	Body, Movement and Improvisation	1	135	60	5	EN
31819301	Expression and Creativity	1	135	60	5	EN
31819302	Puppetry	1	135	60	5	EN
31819303	Theater and Literature	1	108	45	4	EN
31819304	Art and Culture	1	81	30	3	EN
31819305	Technology and Digital Platforms Workshop	1	108	45	4	EN
31819306	Research Methodology	1	108	45	4	EN

*1º year* *2º Semester*
*Code*	*Curricular Unit*	*Plano*	*Work Hours*	*Contact Hours*	*ECTS*	*ECTS File*
31819307	Dramaturgy	1	108	45	4	EN
31819308	Music and Improvisation	1	135	60	5	EN
31819309	Creative Dance	1	135	60	5	EN
31819310	Theory of the Performative Arts	1	108	45	4	EN
31819311	Performance and Community Development	1	108	45	4	EN
31819312	Drama and Theater	1	108	45	4	EN
31819313	Film and Video Workshop	1	108	45	4	EN

*2º year* *1º Semester*
*Code*	*Curricular Unit*	*Plano*	*Work Hours*	*Contact Hours*	*ECTS*	*ECTS File*
31819314	Voice and Singing	1	135	60	5	EN
31819315	Scenography and Costumes I	1	135	60	5	EN
31819316	Acting I	1	108	45	4	EN
31819317	Contemporary Dance Practices	1	108	45	4	EN
31819318	Image, Light and Sound Workshop	1	108	45	4	EN
31819319	Creative writing in Screenwriting and Script	1	108	45	4	EN
31819320	Postural Reflective Motricity	1	108	45	4	EN

*2º year* *2º Semester*
*Code*	*Curricular Unit*	*Plano*	*Work Hours*	*Contact Hours*	*ECTS*	*ECTS File*
31819321	Acting II	1	135	60	5	EN
31819322	Scenography and Costumes II	1	135	60	5	EN
31819323	Rhythms and Singing	1	135	60	5	EN
31819324	Artistic Intervention in the Community	1	135	60	5	EN
31819325	Applied Foreign Languages	1	108	45	4	EN
31819326	Language Processing in Artistic Context	1	81	30	3	EN
31819327	Human resources management	1	81	30	3	EN

*3º year* *1º Semester*
*Code*	*Curricular Unit*	*Plano*	*Work Hours*	*Contact Hours*	*ECTS*	*ECTS File*
31819328	Project and Cultural Creation Seminar	1	189	120	7	EN
31819329	Directing	1	135	60	5	EN
31819330	Digital Art	1	135	60	5	EN
31819331	Management and Production in the Performing Arts	1	135	60	5	EN
31819332	Anthropology and Performing Arts	1	135	60	5	EN

*3º year* *2º Semester*
*Code*	*Curricular Unit*	*Plano*	*Work Hours*	*Contact Hours*	*ECTS*	*ECTS File*
31819334	Project/ Internship	1	405	210	15	EN
31819335	Creation and Performance	1	135	60	5	EN
31819336	Social Theater	1	108	45	4	EN
31819337	Media Drama	1	81	30	3	EN

Applications

Admission examinations: 10. Descriptive Geometry OR 12. History of Culture and Arts OR 18.Portuguese

Note: The information available does not exempt applicants from consulting the website of the General Directorate of Higher Education (DGES) and/or of the Applicants website

Accreditation

Course:
Arts of Cultural Performance

Degree or Diploma:
Bachelor's Degree

Duration:
3 curricular years / 6 semesters

Coordinators:
Professor Ricardo Cavadas