Dossiê Temático: Currículo, Decolonialidade e Formação Docente nas Artes Cênicas

CALL FOR PAPERS / URDIMENTO - v. 3, n. 56, December 2025

Thematic Dossier: Curriculum, Decoloniality and Teacher Training in the Performing Arts

For this Thematic Dossier, Urdimento – Journal of Studies in Performing Arts – will receive articles until September 20, 2025. These articles must be included in Urdimento, v.3, n. 56, December 2025.

The Editorial Committee proposing this Thematic Dossier is composed of the following professors: Gustavo Melo Cerqueira, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO); Érico José, University of Brasília (UNB); Alexandra Dumas, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA); Isabel Penoni, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO); Angela Donini, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO); Paulo Melgaço (Theatro Municipal - RJ); Edson Kayapó, Instituto Federal da Bahia (IFBA); Annie Martins Afonso, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA-AM).

Proposal of the dossier:

Decolonial discussions in the context of university research and practices in the Performing Arts have been gaining more and more followers and space, especially in dialogue with black and/or indigenous cultural practices, as well as dissident gender and sexuality practices that destabilize the logics of coloniality. However, the growth and deepening of these discussions do not correspond to the still very incipient effort to reformulate curricula and the political-pedagogical thoughts that structure undergraduate and graduate programs in the country, even though these have been pressured for more than two decades by different legal frameworks that oblige them to a counter-colonial review of their curricula and political-pedagogical projects. This fact leads us to ask whether decolonial discussions have not been mobilized and appropriated in academic institutions only to the extent of reproducing the colonial practices that structure them, that is, without implying a discontinuity with epistemic and structural racism, as well as with the hegemony of hetero and cisgender-centered epistemologies.

Suggestions for approaches:

1 - Relations between curriculum, decoloniality, anti-racism, dissident gender and/or sexuality politics in the teaching-learning of Performing Arts in Basic Education or Higher Education;

2 - Decolonial, anti-racist, dissident gender and/or sexuality practices in the teaching of Performing Arts in Basic Education, Higher Education or Non-Formal Education;

3 - Afro-referenced, indigenous, gender and/or sexuality-dissident approaches in the curricula of undergraduate courses in Performing Arts, including Theater, Dance, Theater Direction, Acting, Set Design and Costume Design, among others;

4 - Challenges for teacher training from decolonial, anti-racist, indigenous, gender and/or sexuality-dissident perspectives in Undergraduate courses in Performing Arts;

5 - Performing Arts for children and youth: anti-racist, Afro-referenced, indigenous, gender and/or sexuality-dissident practices, in addition to other decolonial themes, in Performing Arts for children and youth in the context of education;

6 - Anti-racist legislation and its applicability in the context of formal (basic and higher) and non-formal education in the Performing Arts; 7 - Challenges and actions for the presence and permanence of black, indigenous and gender and/or sexually dissident people in teacher training courses in Performing Arts;

In addition to articles, the dossier will include submissions in the following formats: reports, debates and dramaturgy.

All submitted articles are evaluated using a double-blind system (peer review); publication will occur after approval by two ad hoc reviewers.

To publish in Urdimento n.56, the interested party must first register as an author at the link: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/user/register

Then, the article must be submitted to the OJS platform at the URDIMENTO link by September 20, 2025: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento

Articles must be submitted in accordance with the Guidelines for Authors, at the link:

http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/about/submissions