O Pavão:

props, narratives and logic of risk in a fire juggling spectacle

Authors

  • Fabio Dal Gallo Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA
  • Cristina Alves de Macedo Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4113-1675

Keywords:

Juggling, Fire, Circus, Safety, Narrative

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the creation of narratives in fire juggling spectacles, based on the case study of the work O Pavão (The Peacock). The importance of the limit variable of the logic of the risk of the instrument at the moments of conception, building and manipulating fire instruments and props is highlighted, so that the risk factors are controlled for the artists and the audience. As a result, it was identified that the circus spectacle, which featured juggling acts together with fire props, followed a line of tension and relaxation, building a narrative that dialogued with the theme of the event.

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Author Biographies

Fabio Dal Gallo, Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA

Fabio Dal Gallo is an Associate Professor I at the School of Theatre of the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Performing Arts and the Professional Master’s Degree in Arts (PROFARTES) at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. He holds a postdoctoral degree from Università di Padova, a PhD in Performing Arts from Universidade Federal da Bahia, a master’s degree in Social Sciences, and a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy. He has been a member of the Grupo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisa e Extensão em Contemporaneidade, Imaginário e Teatralidade (Interdisciplinary Research and Extension Group on Contemporaneity, Imaginary and Theatricality – GIPECIT) since 2005. He is a member of the GT Circo e Comicidade da Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Artes Cênicas (Circus and Comicality WG of the Brazilian Association for Research and Graduate Studies in the Performing Arts – ABRACE). He has experience in the areas of Theater in Education and Educational Processes in the Performing Arts, with an emphasis on Circus, Street Theater, Theater in Communities, Teaching of Performing Arts and Creation Processes. 

Cristina Alves de Macedo, Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA

Cristina Alves de Macedo is an artist, juggler, clown, rehearser and circus director. She is a member of the Núcleo de Estudos em Teatro Popular (Popular Theater Studies Center) research group at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), which focuses on studies of popular culture, covering studies in the field of circus and involving ethnocenology for studies on spectacularity, and the Grupo de Pesquisas Circenses (Circus Research Group) at UFBA, which deals specifically with research on the circus, within the scope of the performing arts. The lines of research she works in are: Circus Interfaces in Brazilian Theater, Circus Dramaturgies and Creation Processes in Circus. She has a PhD in Performing Arts (PPGAC/UFBA), a Master’s in Language Studies (PPGEL/UNEB) and is a Pedagogue (UCSAL). She is also a researcher of creative processes based on juggling and the manipulation of objects with fire.

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Published

2025-05-27

How to Cite

Dal Gallo, F., & Alves de Macedo, C. (2025). O Pavão:: props, narratives and logic of risk in a fire juggling spectacle. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 15(2). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/147709

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): Apr./Jun. 2025

Section

Circus and Contemporary Performance

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