In recent years, intensifying its international performance through bilateral agreements with institutions, Escola Superior de Artes Celia Helena has offered its students a wider horizon of performance through an intercultural and academic experience. The agreements also provide for the hosting of foreign professors and researchers to discuss the artistic and cultural activities developed in their countries of origin.
Six-month Exchange Programs
With equivalence to our course curriculums, they are designed for ESCH Theatre students and can be taken in the 3rd, 4th or 5th semester at three universities in Portugal and Spain:
Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espetáculo (ESMAE) in Porto, Portugal (https://www.esmae.ipp.pt/)
Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra (ESEC) in Coimbra, Portugal (https://www.ipc.pt/ipc/oferta-formativa/licenciatura-em-teatro-e-educacao/)
Centro Universitário de Artes – Transforming Arts Institute (TAI) in Madrid, Spain (https://taiarts.com/)
Courses
Aiming to broaden the artistic and cultural understanding as well as to promote teaching and research activities, Celia Helena has been dedicated to developing its partnerships with foreign institutions, performing artistic and academic exchanges and offering elective courses to the students of all the school’s courses (Professional, Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postgraduate).
National Theatre in London, UK (https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/)
The partnership signed in 2007 involves the Connections Project. Under the artistic-pedagogical supervision, the project develops actions directed to theater groups from public and private schools, as well as independent collectives, and the bilingual publication of the book “Nova dramaturgia para jovens” (New dramaturgy for young people), with texts specially written by Brazilian and British authors.
New York Film Academy (NYFA) in New York, United States (https://www.nyfa.edu/)
Every year, Celia Helena welcomes directors and professors from the New York Film Academy (NYFA) for lectures, workshops and information sessions about the traditional American institution and its courses. Students interested in taking short courses (Summer courses) or Master’s degrees participate in auditions to apply for scholarships in Musical Theater and Film Acting.
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (SADA) – Stockholm University of Arts (SUA) in Stockholm, Sweden (https://www.uniarts.se/english/about-uniarts/stockholm-academy-of-dramatic-arts)
The partnership between the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (SADA) and Celia Helena involves bilateral projects held both here in Brazil and in Sweden. We have already held workshops in São Paulo in which our students had the opportunity to integrate artistic actions, directed by Stockholm professors, in the line of research and performance of Performing Arts and Landscape, with the support of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM-SP), in Ibirapuera Park.
Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramática (ENSAD) in Lima, Peru (https://www.ensad.edu.pe/)
The partnership with the Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático (ENSAD) was established in 2016, on the occasion of the International Festival organized by the institution in Lima, Peru, and by GATS (Global Alliance of Theatre Schools), when students of the Teatro-escola Célia Helena (TECH) presented the staging of ‘There is no justice in Rome’, , adaptation of the Shakespearean text Tito Andronicus, with direction by Elisa Ohtake. It involves the exchange of students and teachers, both undergraduate and graduate, to carry out teaching and research actions, and the diffusion of the theatrical culture through meetings, seminars, and congresses, among others.
International lectures and courses at Célia Helena Centre for Arts and Education
In April 2019, a partnership between Célia Helena and SESC brought the English director Jonathan Martin for workshops and chats at the School and lectures with ESCH professors, at SESC.
In March 2019, Sabrina Percario, a former student of Celia Helena who was awarded a scholarship at the New York Film Academy in the Acting for Film course, participated in a meeting with the students to share her experiences as an actress, director and producer in the industry.
In February 2019, Celia Helena hosted Israeli playwright and screenwriter Motti Lerner. The meeting also brought together alumnus Michel Joelsas and actress Vivianne Pasmanter about her latest work, “Unholy Love” and the effervescence of the Israeli audiovisual scene.
In September 2018, ESCH hosted Cuban critic, theater researcher, editor and professor Vivian Martínez Tabares.
In May 2018, Jenny Valentine, an English writer, participated in a chat with the students to understand the social, artistic and educational reality of São Paulo. The notes collected both in São Paulo and with the Lima students were themes developed in the text “Noturno/Diurno” for the Connections Project/2019.
In May 2015, the School received Jean-Jacques Lemêtre from the Théâtre du Soleil to teach the intensive course The Musical Body.
