Graduate Program in Performing Arts (PPGAC)

The World Without Us (2024). Multimedia Installation by Diego Migliorin and Amarildo Moraes. Photo: Giovanna Bosco.

Established in 1991, initially known as the Graduate Program in Spectacular Expressions (PPGME) and later renamed the Graduate Program in Theatre (PPGT), the current Graduate Program in Performing Arts (PPGAC) serves as a national and international reference in the field of Performing Arts. The Program is organized around six research areas: History and Historiography of Theater and the Arts (HTA), Performance: Bodies, Images, Languages, and Culture (PCI), Poetics of Scene and Theatrical Text (PCT), Processes and Methods of Theatre Creation (PMC), Formative and Educational Processes (PFE), and Art and Feminisms (AF).

The research areas express a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to art and theatre while maintaining a specific focus on the study of the performing arts, their practices, problems, and procedures.

The program's large faculty body is composed of young researchers and Ph.D. professors with a long track record of research, teaching, and expressive work in the professional field of the performing arts, engaged in a complex set of research in terms of its objects, methodologies, and epistemological perspectives.

 Because the Program covers a wide range of research interests, focusing on different and diverse aspects of the field of Performing Arts, it attracts applicants from different states in Brazil, as well as from abroad, for its Master's, Doctoral, and Post-Doctoral degrees.