Task 5a

                On the last weeks I worked on a big festival in Rio called “Panorama” which has many activities and performances. As is being a very intense and new experience for me, I decided to take this place of work to analyse which ethical considerations might be applied.

                

                The Panorama Festival was first showed in 1992 and since 2007 it is organized by the Cultural Panorama Association and it’s recognized by many international institutions from performing arts. It has the goal of bringing different contemporary dance performances and projects from varied formats, to different areas from Rio de Janeiro.  Already with 22 years, the Festival has already brought many artists and dance companies (national and international) and has a fundamental spot on the cultural calendar of the city. During the Festival, many performances (with different formats) are presented in many places of the city, always with popular price tickets, as well as many activities.

                The Panorama Festival has different sections of work. I joined the Education Program of the Festival which brings activities that aim to approximate different audiences and institutions to the contemporary performance field and also, invest on bringing critical thinking to the audience as well to the professionals from this area. The Education Program invests on contacting schools, communities, ONGS and other organizations offering tickets and free transport to performances and do activities which aim to bring a critical reflection of the performance showed. There are also special activities and performances to the children’s’ audience and partnership with dance and arts universities. Some examples of the activities done by the Education Section of the Festival this year were:

-Workshops with choreographers/artists: activities for pre-selected artists from the performing arts segment.

-Workshops on schools: Activities with artists from the Festival on public schools.

-University Laboratory: A three day laboratory where eight university groups from bachelor, masters or postgraduate programs are invited to show their academic researches to specialized professionals and artists from the Festival

-Practices and Tools for Dance Education Seminar: A three day event where professionals expose and discuss their methods of teaching with the goal of achieving better quality on dance education on public schools and other institutions.

-Review Laboratory: Selected students choose performances which after watching will be discussed and they construct a review under orientation from university teachers. The reviews will be exposed on the Festival website later on. 

-Public talks with choreographers and artists involved on the Festival.

                 The Panorama Festival is a very inspirational event and it was an amazing experience to work with. I decided to take those activities from the Education Section of the Festival to reflect which ethical considerations might be applied on it. First of all, for the pre-selection for workshops and laboratories, the applicants filled in forms which contain personal information sections that will be presented to the Festival such as contact, age, address, curriculum etc. The applicant might need to sign a document which agrees with the terms and conditions from the Festival. It is also from the Festival sake to don’t publish what it is private.  For the Review and University Laboratories this responsibility also involves the rights from the works presented, for example for the reviews that are posted on the Festival’s website. It must have also special consideration about the Image Rights from those activities: the applicants might have to sign documents which allow pictures and recordings to be taken during the activities and that if they can be shared on the Festival Facebook Page for example. With the activities that involve schools, institutions and children those considerations need to be taken even more seriously as they are under age. The Festival also needs to be careful with the material given to the activities and also with the artists rights as their performances and activities might be photographed/recorded by the Festival or Institution where the activity is being done.

              

              Those are the issues that came on my mind without referencing to any document or discussion. For the next task I will interview the Education Program Coordinator and analyse the considerations that are taken by the Festival.