E a palhaçaria onde está? um mapeamento da técnica palhacesca nas universidades públicas do Nordeste

Abstract

The present research aimed to map the presence of clowning in Theater undergraduate programs at public universities in the Northeast Region, with the purpose of legitimizing this technique as an essential methodology in the training of theater educators. To achieve this objective, a literature review was conducted, as well as a survey of data from the Political-Pedagogical Projects and Curriculum Profiles of the analyzed programs, in addition to a case study with an exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative approach. The results obtained contribute to the consolidation of clowning in higher education, identify gaps, suggest new developments on the topic, bring researchers from different states closer together, and record both existing and new practices. The main theoretical frameworks of this research include the works of Ermínia Silva (1996, 2007, 2009, 2011), Arão Santana (2000), Luís Otávio Burnier (2001), Alice Viveiros de Castro (2005), Elza de Andrade (2009), Rodrigo Duprat (2014), and Alexandre Araújo (2021).