Workshop with Alissa Mello
WORKSHOP PERFORMING GENDER
Coordenação: Alissa Melo (United States)
31 May 2025 / Saturday - from 10am to 12.30pm
Faculdade de Letras - Sala C251.B
Workshop organised as part of the Conference Cycle Puppetry Arts - Memory and Identity.
In this workshop we will examine established beliefs about representation of diverse genders and will consider how we can subvert and challenge these through simple means using just paper and tape. We will start with an exploration of our physical, durational, and sonic assumptions around performing gender followed by a period of rapid puppet making and conclude with a period of play and exploration with the puppets that we have just made.
For: All kinds of participants - professionals and amateurs from all art fields
Number of participants: 16
Workshop schedule: 31 May from 10am to 12.30pm (Saturday)
Language: English
Fee: 5€
Deadline for applications: 29 May 2025
The participants should bring comfortable clothing
Selection in order of registration after payment.
INFO AND REGISTRATIONS
The registration in the workshop is made by the duly filled application form in Google Forms or in doc file - in this case it must be send to: fimfafestival@gmail.com
⇨ APLICATION FORM: AT GOOGLE FORMS OR DOWNLOAD HERE
BIO Alissa Mello is a theatre artist and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations (recipient of the 2022 UNIMA-USA Nancy Staub Award and finalist for ATHE’s 2020 Excellence in Editing Award) with Claudia Orenstein and Cariad Astles, and contributions to books and journals. Forthcoming edited volumes are Race, Gender and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance, co-edited with Paulette Richards and Laura Purcell-Gates, and Making Meaning with Puppets: Material, Performance, Perception with Dassia Posner and Claudia Orenstein both in contract with Routledge. She was a founding member of Inkfish, and performed and choreographed with Theodora Skipitares, Anna Kiraly, Jane Catherine Shaw and Ishara Puppet Theater. From 2019 - 2022 she was the Managing Director at Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research. Since 2023 she has been the editor of UNIMA-USA’s biannual journal Puppetry International.
This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under UID/00279: Centro de Estudos de Teatro da FLUL
