Thought-in-Process

Critical Perspectives

Thought-in-Process

Guests from different fields gather after the performances to engage in dialogue with the audience and the artists about the shows.

After the performance of History of Violence, 9pm | Teatro Liberdade

WITH Thomas Ostermeier and Helena Vieira

Thomas Ostermeier has been a resident director and a member of the artistic leadership of the Schaubühne since 1999. He graduated in directing from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch” and was artistic director of the Baracke at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. He has directed productions at the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Edinburgh Festival, the Burgtheater in Vienna, and the Comédie-Française in Paris. In 2004, he became an associate artist of the Festival d’Avignon, where he regularly presents his work. He received the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale for lifetime achievement (2011), as well as several honors, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kythera Prize for Culture (both in 2018).

Helena Vieira is a writer, playwright, and researcher. In theater, she investigates narrative forms that re-signify history and the lived experience of dissident bodies, as in Jango Jezebel: Where Were the Travestis During the Dictatorship? She has published essays in collections such as Explosão Feminista (ed. Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda) and História do Movimento LGBT no Brasil (ed. James N. Green, Renan Quinalha, Marcio Caetano, and Marisa Fernandes). Her work moves between philosophy, gender studies, and cultural criticism, contributing to outlets such as Cult, Harper’s Bazaar, Galileu, and Folha de S.Paulo.

After the performance of The Letter, 6pm | Teatro do SESI-SP

WITH Arne de Tremerie, Olga Mouak and Juliana Pardo

Arne De Tremerie is a versatile Belgian actor and musician who graduated from KASK Drama in 2020. He is a frequent collaborator with director Milo Rau and NTGent, currently gaining international acclaim for his solo performance in The Interrogation. His diverse background includes significant work with the Camping Sunset collective as well as roles in various feature films and television series. Beyond his acting career, he remains active in the music scene and is set to release a new album with his band, Outer, in late 2026.

Olga Mouak graduated from ENSAD Montpellier in 2016. She has worked on several international productions with directors such as Bob Wilson, Eva Doumbia, and Milo Rau. Mouak also works in cinema with directors such as Anthony Marciano, Emmanuelle Bercot, and Lucien Jean Baptiste. She is currently actively working on creating her solo show.

Juliana Pardo is an actress, director, and pedagogue whose practice is art-feminist, working with body and performance technologies and bringing theatre and dance into dialogue with popular performance knowledge. Her work investigates the body, memory, transnationalities, and the transmission of knowledge alongside traditional communities. She is part of the team of masters at ISTA – International School of Theatre Anthropology. She is the founder of Cia Mundu Rodá and Grupo Manjarra, and the author of the books Mestre Inácio Lucindo and Cavalo Marinho – Do Fundo da Roda ao Pé do Banco.

After the performance of Philoctetes in Lemnos, 5pm | TUSP

WITH Marina Tranjan, Vinicius Torres Machado and Tatiana Schunck

Marina Tranjan is an actress, playwright, and director, with a degree from ECA/USP. She wrote the dramaturgy for O Ruído Branco da Palavra Noite (Companhia Auto-Retrato), Sobre Concreto Sonho (Forte Casa Teatro), Aporia 23°S 46°W (directed by Vinícius Torres Machado for Formação 16 at Escola Livre de Teatro de Santo André), Anecdoche and Cantos de um Naufrágio Esquecido —the latter two for Projeto Espetáculo at Fábrica de Cultura Jardim São Luís. She also wrote the plays Todos os Meus, winner of the playwriting competition held by the group Folias, and Fuga a Quatro Vozes (currently in production). Furthermore, she was part of Companhia Auto-Retrato from 2002 to 2012, working as actress, director, and playwright on O Ruído Branco da Palavra Noite; directing Seis da Tarde; and acting in Retornarse, Ausência, and Origem Destino. In 2025, she directed Philoctetes in Lemnos, conceived by Vinicius Torres Machado. Tranjan was also part of the Narrativas de Passagem nucleus at Escola Livre de Teatro de Santo André, mentored by Luís Alberto de Abreu.

Vinicius Torres Machado is a director, performer, and playwright. A professor at the Institute of Arts of São Paulo State University (Unesp), he holds a degree in acting and a master’s and PhD in performing arts from ECA/USP. His main research areas include theater theory and aesthetics. He has published the books The Mask in Modern Theater: From the Inside Out of Tradition to Contemporaneity; The Scene in Becoming: An Instant in Which Something Ceases to Exist; and In Time: An Introduction to Performativity in Ancient Greece, co-authored with João Pedro Ribeiro. Among his notable works are A Porta, Aporia 23°S 46°W, Com os Bolsos Cheios de Pão, Revoltar, and Philoctetes in Lemnos.

Tatiana Schunck is an artist, writer, and researcher in the performing arts. A postdoctoral researcher at LUME/Unicamp with a FAPESP fellowship, she holds a PhD in performing arts from Unicamp, an MA in arts from Unesp, and a BA in performing arts from USP. She leads laboratories focused on research-creation, writing, and performative practices in Brazil and abroad, develops artistic actions such as Performance de uma Pessoa Escrita and Corpo Geo Grafia, and is the author of the books Performance de uma Pessoa Escrita (Telha) and O Mundo do Lado de Casa (Patuá).

After the performance of galhada (branching out): in times of fissure, 7pm | Itaú Cultural

WITH Alice Stefânia and Cecilia Salles

Alice Stefânia is an artist-educator and full professor in the department of performing arts and the graduate program in performing arts at Universidade de Brasília. Since 2010, she has coordinated the research group Poéticas do Corpo and has been an artist-researcher with the collective Teatro do Instante. She earned a PhD in performing arts from UFBA (2007) and an MA in arts from UnB (2000). As part of a postdoctoral project at USP in 2025, she created the performance galhada (branching out): in times of fissure. She has been an actress-creator for around 35 years and, over that time, has given birth to many scenes, performances, and productions—as well as to a musician and a photographer, now 28 and 24 years old, respectively.

Cecília Almeida Salles holds a PhD in applied linguistics and language studies from PUC/SP and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the department of cinema, radio and television at Escola de Comunicações e Artes (USP). She is a full professor in the graduate programs in communication and semiotics and in literature and literary criticism at PUC/SP. She also teaches in the MA in Processo de Criação at Universidade do Algarve, in Portugal. Salles coordinates the research group in creation processes and is the author of the books Gesto Inacabado: Processo de Criação Artística, Redes da Criação: Construção da Obra de Arte, Arquivos de Criação: Arte e Curadoria, and Processos de Criação em Grupo: Diálogos.

After the performance of Surveilled and Punished, 8pm | Teatro do SESI-SP

WITH Safia Nolin, Philippe Cyr and Camila Rocha

Safia Nolin is a Canadian singer-songwriter who understands herself as a political being in her own right, through the battles she fights, the themes she addresses, and her appearance. Seen as “deformed” due to her condition as a racialized woman and openly lesbian artist who does not conform to so-called feminine standards imposed for centuries, she chooses to embrace this dissonant image rather than react against what she is not. She has released albums such as Limoilou, Reprises vol. 1, Reprises vol. 2, Dans le Noir, and SEUM, as well as EPs and singles, including the duet Mélancolie with Patrick Watson and her recent English-language ballad Carrie.

Philippe Cyr is a Canadian theater director. Over the past few years, he has created nearly 25 shows. Drawing on a variety of materials, he charts a course punctuated by formal questioning and takes an incisive look at the gray areas of existence. His work has been exceptionally well received by audiences and critics alike, earning him and his collaborators numerous nominations. The works in which he participates are presented on tour in Quebec, Canada, South America, and Europe. Among the most notable are Le iShow (2013), J’Aime Hydro (2016), Le Poids des Fourmis (2019), Corps Titan (Titre de Survie) (2021), Insoutenables Longues Étreintes (2023), and Ces Regards Amoureux de Garçons Altérés (2025). In August 2021, he became artistic director and co-executive director of Théâtre Prospero. Under his leadership, in collaboration with co-executive director Vincent de Repentigny, Prospero is further exploring issues related to boundaries and transgressive approaches. This translates into vibrant, moving, and deeply humanistic creations.

Camila Rocha is scientific director of Centro para Imaginação Crítica at Cebrap. She holds a PhD in political science from Universidade de São Paulo and received the Tese Destaque USP award as well as the Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política award for best doctoral dissertation. Rocha was a finalist for the 64th Prêmio Jabuti with the book Menos Marx Mais Mises: O Liberalismo e a Nova Direita no Brasil. She has also been a columnist for Folha de S.Paulo, serves as a global advisor to Our Common Home, and sits on the board of Instituto Democracia em Xeque.

After the performance of Republikkk or Crossroads Aren’t Alleys, 4pm | CCSP

WITH Hercules Morais and Jaqueline Moraes Teixeira

Hercules Morais is an artist, philosopher, and multidisciplinary researcher whose work investigates art as a technology of presence and meaning. He was part of Centro de Pesquisa Teatral (CPT), under the direction of Antunes Filho. He has performed in 15 productions as an actor and co-directed six. He has received awards from Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA) and Prêmio Aplauso Brasil, including best playwright and best actor. Morais is co-founder and director of training at Núcleo de Artes Cênicas (NAC), a national reference in author-driven training. He directs Instituto REC – Construção Estética da Realidade, dedicated to articulating arts, health, and meaning in life. His project in development, Os Brasis de Darcy – Biografias de um Brasil em Extinção, undertakes artistic-documentary expeditions across threatened Brazilian biomes —Cerrado, Pantanal, Mata Atlântica, and Pampa— bringing together field listening and the creation of scenic-sensory devices. The project unfolds as a stage work, documentary film, and immersive installation, transforming territory and memory into artistic material. Its first stage resulted in Republikkk ou Encruzilhada Não É Beco, a work that combines ritual theatre, documentary dramaturgy, and sensory language to reflect on ecological collapse and the symbolic imaginary in contemporary Brazil.

Jaqueline Moraes Teixeira is a professor in the department of health and society at Faculdade de Saúde Pública da USP. She previously served as an adjunct professor in the department of sociology at UnB (SOL/UNB). She holds a PhD in social anthropology from USP, where she also earned her MA. Teixeira has a BA in social sciences from USP and a BA in theology from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. She is a researcher at Cebrap (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento), conducting research in the areas of gender, race, sexuality, and religion. She is also a collaborating researcher at ISER (Instituto de Estudos da Religião) and coordinator of CRESPO (Cultura, Religião, Sujeitos e Políticas). The professional currently serves as deputy treasurer of Associação Brasileira de Antropologia and is a member of the editorial committee of Cadernos Pagu. In addition to serving as a full supervisor in the graduate program in sociology at UnB, she continues as a collaborating professor in the area of education and social sciences (inequalities and differences) in the graduate program in education at USP. Her research interests include religion and social markers of difference, education and human rights, and subjects and the production of public health policies.