Abstract
The Winter Festival of Ouro Preto, established in 1967, was one of the largest cultural vehicles in the country of Brazil in the seventies. The event offered a wide range of activities including courses, concerts, art exhibitions, and theatrical performances that attracted thousands of people to the historical city. In the middle of military dictatorship, the Festival was perceived as a space for freedom of creation and artistic experimentation that dialogued intensively with the aesthetic vanguard propositions. In the field of the performing arts, the genesis of some artistic groups, the Corpo, Giramundo and Oficcina Multimedia are bound up with the event. We examine the Winter Festival from 1967 to 1979, considering it a space of cultural and aesthetic experimentation exchanges that allowed the scenic creation to go beyond the disciplinary boundaries. Likewise, we discuss the ambiguities and contradictions of the event in regard to the political differences during the dictatorial government, which supported culture, while simultaneously suppressing it.
Keywords
theatre; dictatorship; Winter Festival