Towards a new era for theatre and theatres

Towards a new era for theatre and theatres

On the occasion of the 27th March 2023, World Theatre Day A symbol of Porto city and an iconic building of modernist architecture, Coliseu do Porto has been, since 1941, a stage for all audiences and a wide range of arts. A theatre where the classic-style decor...
Audio content analysis for performing arts

Audio content analysis for performing arts

by Maximos Kaliakatsos The Athena Research Center (ARC) in Athens, Greece, is working with archives available in the PREMIERE project, applying audio content analysis to dance and theatre recordings. The aim is to enrich the way we understand performances and improve...
Testing 2D human body pose estimation in dance scenes

Testing 2D human body pose estimation in dance scenes

In the Laboratoire Hubert Curien at Saint-Etienne the first tests and experimentations done on the Thomas Talawa Prestø video provided by Amsterdam University of the Arts enable to demonstrate that applying 2D human body pose estimation technique, based on deep...
FITEI at Premiere: a step towards accessibility

FITEI at Premiere: a step towards accessibility

Written by Rute Marques da Silva / FITEI FITEI is a cultural institution whose ambition is to promote theatre and the performing arts, as well as to encourage artistic creation, through the organization of an annual festival with an outstanding vision in the...
Forum Dança’s Documentation Centre

Forum Dança’s Documentation Centre

Written by Ezequiel Santos The Documentation Centre emerged with the foundation of Forum Dança (FD), in 1990, to support and systematize Contemporary Dance in Portugal. Through the vision of its founders – people of philosophy, choreography and movement analysis...