Dissemination

Pre-launch of the publication “Vozes Vivas: Inquiries into the Vocalities of the Stage” held at ESTC

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On 30 and 31 May 2025, the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC) in Amadora hosted the II International Meeting Voices of the Voice in the Performing Arts. The event, held at the João Mota Theatre Studio, featured the pre-launch of the publication “Vozes Vivas: Inquiries into the Vocalities of the Stage”, coordinated by Sara Belo and Juliana Rangel, researchers at CIAC – Research Centre for Arts and Communication.

The publication stems from ongoing artistic and research activities initiated at the “Voices of the Voice in the Performing Arts” meeting, held in November 2023 in partnership between ESTC/IPL and the Institute of Culture and Arts, Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil). That meeting promoted exchange between performative practices, creative processes, and voice pedagogy in contemporary theatre, highlighting the voice as a sensitive, ethical, and political phenomenon.

How to think about the voice?
As a movement of air vibrating within the deep body, passing through the throat, and finding resonance in the ear of another. A living, embodied, and irreproducible voice, as proposed by Adriana Cavarero—a vibration of flesh that is heard and felt. With this perspective, Vozes Vivas invites the reader to reflect on the voice as relationship, presence, and creation.

The event began on 30 May with a welcome session, followed by student presentations and an opening conversation with Anabela Duarte, singer and researcher, who shared experiences from her career spanning pop, experimental music, and opera. The afternoon continued with a roundtable on Poetics of the Voice in Contemporary Portuguese Theatre, moderated by Sara Belo and Rodrigo Spina, with participation from Bruno Bravo, Margarida Marecos, Pedro Gil, and Marina Campanatti. In the evening, Rodrigo Spina’s postdoctoral research process was presented, followed by the release of the CD Voz Nua by Sara Belo.

On 31 May, an online meeting was held with professors and researchers to establish an international network for collaboration and research in voice poetics.

The publication, currently in pre-launch phase while awaiting funding for its full edition, gathers texts from artists, educators, and researchers exploring the multiple layers of vocality in contemporary performance.

Table of Contents of the Publication:

• Presentation – Luca Aprea
• Introduction – Sara Belo and Juliana Rangel
• Voices of the Voice: Interview with Fátima Miranda – Juliana Rangel and Sara Belo
• In Search of a Voice-Intuition in Contemporary Performative Practices – Bruno Pereira
• Voice-Versatility in 20th-Century Theatre-Music – Maria João Serrão
• Challenges in Vocal Performance with the SerBanda Sound Machine – Cesar Lignelli
• Practices of Vocal Pedagogy – Research Proposals on the Singularity of the Voice – Sara Belo
• From the Sounds of the Voice: Voice, Space, and Library in Theatrical Art – Hector Briones
• Pedagogies of the Voice – Maria Repas
• Expectations, Judgments, Demands, and Failures: The (Dis)Belief in the Perfectibility of the Voice – João Miguel E. Henriques
• Expanded Vocalities in Links: Performative Propositions for a Voice-Environment Immersion in Ecological Relation to Life – Juliana Rangel
• Carvings, a Deadlock (to be Read Aloud) – Maria Duarte

The work, in its diversity of approaches and practices, reinforces the centrality of the voice as a field of artistic research and sensitive sharing, aligning with CIAC’s objectives of promoting interdisciplinary projects in the arts and communication.

Support and Collaborations:
ESTC, CIAC/FCT, Institute of Culture and Arts (Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC), IA | Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, FAPESP (Process No. 2024/12853-2), FAEPEX, European University.

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