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Pedro Manuel. Completed the Mestrado in Estudos de Teatro in 2007/01/09 by Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Licenciatura in Filosofia in 2002/06/30 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Doctor in Media and Performance Studies in 2017/12/06 by Universiteit Utrecht Departement Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen and Master in DasArts - Master of Theatre in 2013/06/30 by Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Academie voor Theater en Dans. Is Assistant in ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten. Published 5 articles in journals. Has 2 section(s) of books. Has received 1 awards and/or honors. Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Arts with emphasis on Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy). In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: "artes performativas"; "estudos de teatro" ; "performance studies"; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Manuel

Citation names

  • Manuel, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A816-FEE5-35DE

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 649169382 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Admiraal de Ruijterweg, 284-3, 1055MR, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2010/10/01 - 2017/12/06
Concluded
 Media and Performance Studies (Doctor)
Universiteit Utrecht Departement Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen, Netherlands
""Theatre Without Actors - Rehearsing Modes of Co-Presence"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/09/01 - 2013/06/30
Concluded
 DasArts - Master of Theatre (Master)
Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Academie voor Theater en Dans, Netherlands
""A Short Orgasm About the Theatre"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002/09/01 - 2007/01/09
Concluded
 Estudos de Teatro (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Portugal
""Do Teatro da Morte à Teatralidade"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good - Unanimity
1998/09/01 - 2002/06/30
Concluded
 Filosofia (Licenciatura)
Major in Filosofia contemporânea; Estética;
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"A Ilusão Dramática" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19/20 - final thesis
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/07/01 - 2015/09/30 Researcher (Research) Universiteit Utrecht Departement Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen, Netherlands
ICON - Media and Performance Studies, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2014/12/31 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
ICON - Media and Performance Studies, Portugal
(...)

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/05/01 - Current Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Netherlands
Master Theatre Practices, Netherlands
2008/09/01 - 2009/02/28 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Artes de Lisboa, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2009/02/28 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) IADE - Faculdade de Design, Tecnologia e Comunicação, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/04/01 - 2018/04/30 Head of Programme ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Netherlands
Master Theatre Practices, Netherlands

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/09/01 - 2010/02/28 Localismos - Fund "Jovens Criadores" Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
2009/04/01 - 2009/07/31 PGAD (Programa Gulbenkian de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento) Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2007/10/01 - 2008/07/31 Theatre Director - "Chez Kantor" Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Novo Núcleo de Teatro, Portugal
2007/09/01 - 2008/07/15 Actor Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal
Centro de Pedagogia e Animação, Portugal
2006/09/01 - 2007/06/30 Theatre Teacher - Primary Schools Câmara Municipal do Barreiro, Portugal
Agrupamento de Escolas do Barreiro, Portugal
2002/09/01 - 2006/06/30 Theatre Teacher - Initiation; Adults Arteviva - Companhia de Teatro do Barreiro, Portugal
2004/09/01 - 2005/08/30 Stage - Theatre Production and Programming Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
Câmara Municipal do Barreiro, Portugal
(...)
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2010/09/01 - 2015/01/31 Theatre without actors: Rehearsing new modes of co-presence
SFRH/BD/70830/2010
PhD Student Fellow
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/07/14 - 2010/08/30 A Study of theatre in Maputo: interviews with makers; Workshop "Writing Theatre Reviews"
N.A.
Researcher
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
2009/10/01 - 2010/02/28 Localism(o)s: Um sítio de lugares / A site of places
N.A.
Researcher
Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
 Centro Nacional de Cultura
Concluded
2009/04/01 - 2009/07/14 Exploring Participatory Design and Theatre in Mozambique with Theatre of the Oppressed
N.A.
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2011/06/30 - 2012/10/15 Application PSI Regional Research Cluster
001225
Other
Direcção Geral das Artes
Concluded
2010 - 2011 Artisic Residency - Cascoland Kolenkit
N.A.
Cascoland, Netherlands
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Manuel, Pedro. "Olhos nos Olhos — O Teatro sem Actores de Fantasmagories Technologiques". In "Imagens de uma Ausência", 183-192. Colibri, 2011.
  2. Manuel, Pedro. "Um Outro O Mesmo". In Teatro O Bando - Afectos e Reflexos de um Trajecto. Teatro O Bando, 2006.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Manuel, Pedro. "Complicating the Implication: Animism and Spectrality in Performances Without Humans". Performance Research 24 6 (2019): 16-21. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13528165.2019.1686582.
    Published
  2. Manuel, Pedro. "If I Return Will You Remember". Platform Journal 12 2 (2019): https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/8408/08_if_i_return_will_you_remember_manuel.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  3. Manuel, Pedro. "Absent Audiences: Circuit-bending the Feedback Loop". Performance Research 19 5 (2014): 69-76. http://www.performance-research.org/author-articles.php?author_id=2027.
    Published
  4. Manuel, Pedro. "Teatro Anatómico". Textos e Pretextos 8 (2006): 54-61. http://cec.letras.ulisboa.pt/en/textos-e-pretextos/os-monstros/.
    Published
  5. Manuel, Pedro. "Memento Mori". Sinais de Cena 5 (2006): 88-91. https://revistas.rcaap.pt/sdc/issue/view/758.
    Open access
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Manuel, Pedro. "Theatre Without Actors - Rehearsing Modes of Co-Presence". PhD, Universiteit Utrecht Departement Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen, 2017. http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/358079.

Artistic / Performance

Theatre play
  1. 2020. Table of Contents.
  2. 2015. Erasure, by Pedro Manuel.
  3. 2014. If I Return Will You Remember.
  4. 2013. Short Orgasm for the Theatre, By Pedro Manuel.
  5. 2012. Third Culture Kid, by Margo van de Linde.
  6. 2011. Act 2, by Pedro Manuel.
  7. 2010. Them, by Pedro Manuel.
  8. 2009. Political Representation.
  9. 2008. Chez Kantor, inspired in Tadeusz Kantor.
  10. 2007. Senhor Valery, by Gonçalo M. Tavares.
  11. 2006. Fabrica, by Ascanio Celestini.
  12. 2005. Debaixo da Cidade, by Gonçalo M. Tavares.
  13. 2005. Pais Imaginario, by Pedro Manuel.
  14. Ricardo Guerreiro. 2004. O Armario.
  15. 2003. Staged Readings: Anton Tchekhov, Peter Weiss and Robert Walser..
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018/05/25 Second Nature - Automated Theatres, Autonomous Acting City Symposium: on “Technoperformance”
Spring Festival/ Utrecht University
2017/12/19 PhD dissertation and recent artistic work related with the theme of Spectrality ARRG lecture series
ASCA Research Group on Artistic Research/ University of Amsterdam
2016/08/18 Moving Image as Form of Staging Theatre Without Actors Moving Image Club
Moving Image Club – Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
2015/04/17 Performances of Readership Conference “Play/Perform/Participate
International Society for Intermedial Studies/ Utrecht University
2015/04/16 Reflections About the Notion of “Poor Object” in the Work of Tadeusz Kantor Conferência Internacional Tadeusz Kantor 1915 - 2015
Universidade de Évora
2015/03/18 Reality Check Conference Does it Matter — Composite Bodies and Posthuman Prototypes in Contemporary Performing Arts
Studies in Performing Arts and Media/ Ghent University, Ghent
2014/07/06 Do Empty Stages Dream of Absent Actors? Performance Studies international #20 - Shanghai
Performance Studies international/ Shanghai Theater Academy
2014/03/04 Scientific Experiments as Performances of Nature Media and Performance Studies Seminar
Utrecht University
2012/06/28 Haunted by Aura Performance Studies International #18 - Leeds
Performance Studies International/ University of Leeds
2012/02/18 Round table on Participatory Theatre The Politics of Practice
Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group (STPRG) - Goldsmiths, University of London,
2011/04/15 Craig and the Ubermarionnette Regarding Theatre Without Actors Treasures Meeting – Edward Gordon Craig
Utrecht University

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2015/07/06 - 2015/07/10 "We Live Here" Research lab: On Levitation: Researching Qualities of Participation; Co-convenor with designer and researcher B. Neves Alves and programmer I. Koks at summer academy ‘We Live Here 2015,’ Amsterdam. Guests: A. Hendriks, E. Hagoort, E. van Erven, I. Schipper, F. Malzacher, E. Kaldor, Ramana. The lab proposed a speculative exercise on "Levitation" as key to researching participation. (2015/07/06 - 2015/07/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 We Live Here Summer Academy, Netherlands
2009/07 - 2009/07 Workshop: Ordinary Day Museum. Theatre and Communication workshop at the Mozambican National Museum of Art in Maputo. With Barbara Neves Alves. (2009 - 2009)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Mozambican National Museum of Art, Maputo, Mozambique
2007 - 2008 Workshop: Writing Theatre Reviews (2007)
Workshop (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2015 - Current Chairing a talk with Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie - Muenchner Kammerspiele KammerCampus #1
Dasarts, Netherlands

Muenchner Kammerspiele, Germany
2012 - Current Steirischer Herbst - Performing Arts Festival Truth Is Concrete
Steirischer Herbst, Austria
2011 - Current Trashing Performance conference Trashing Performance
Performance Matters, United Kingdom

Live Art Development Agency, United Kingdom
2011 - 2011 Performance Studies International Conference #17 - Utrecht
Conference
 Performance Studies International #17 - Camilo 2.0
Performance Studies International, Netherlands

Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/02 - 2021/04 Speculative Scenarios - Sensing the Gap Home of Performance Practices (Master) ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Netherlands
2020/03 - 2020/07 Performing Public Space Off-Courses (Bachelor (1st cycle)) Academie Minerva - Hanzenhogeschool, Netherlands
2020 - 2020 Environments of Expanded Acting Master of Theatre Practices (Master) ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Netherlands
2017 - 2019 Artistic Research Master of Theatre Practices (Master) ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Netherlands
2018 - 2018 Strategies of Staging the Real Master International Dramaturgy (Master) Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 - 2009 Aesthetics of Art and Design BA Design and Entrepreneurship (Licenciatura) IADE - Faculdade de Design, Tecnologia e Comunicação, Portugal
2008 - 2009 Theatre Analysis; History of Performing Techniques; Dramaturgy of Final Work; BA Degree in Performing Arts (Licenciatura) Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Artes de Lisboa, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2018/03/30 "Theater Zonder Acteurs" - Who is acting now, and how? Theaterkrant

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2015/11/11 - 2015/11/11 Teatro de Bolso - "Erasure", by Pedro Manuel at Teatro D.Maria II/ Festival Temps D'Images Presentation of performance piece "Erasure", by Pedro Manuel at Teatro D.Maria II/ Festival Temps D'Images

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2020/10 - 2021/06 mentoring choreographer Flávia Pinheiro (BR) Flávia Pinheiro
2019 - 2019 Ana Vilela da Costa (PT)
2018 - 2019 Mariela Nestora (GR)
2018 - 2019 Silas Neumann (DE)
2018 - 2019 Eleni Mylona (GR)
2017 - 2018 Jan DeBoom (BE)
2017 - 2018 Maria João Falcão (PT)
2016 - 2016 Vera Sofia da Mota (PT)

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015/07/01 - 2015/07/31 Jury Funding Program "Pontuais" DGArtes - Theatre (2015) Direcção Geral das Artes, Portugal
2013/05/01 - 2013/05/31 Jury Funding Program "Pontuais" DGArtes - Theatre (2013) Direcção Geral das Artes, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2008 Audience Prize
FATAL - Academic Theatre Festival of Lisbon, Portugal