What are plateaus?

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Classes dedicated to the study of a specific topic (performance art, dramaturgy, philosophy, etc.). Plateaus are levels that highlight these topics beyond the most immediate and primary meaning they may have. By placing dramaturgy on a plateau, for example, we seek to approach it in ways that multiply the ways of looking at what it was, what it is and, in particular, what a dramaturgy can become.

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How can we conceive of a space-time that is favourable to investigating a particular topic without anticipating meanings or closing off possibilities?

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Regions of continuous intensity

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In the philosophy of Frenchmen Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, plateaus are pieces of immanence, "regions of continuous intensity, [...] constituted in such a way that they do not allow themselves to be interrupted by an external termination, nor do they allow themselves to go towards a culminating point".

​In our plateaus, we are not at the service of idealisations or projections, but of what a particular meeting of people and thoughts is capable of generating. We don't work with lack. For us, immanence lies in the meaning of the journey itself and not in the results that, one way or another, will eventually arrive.

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Deleuze and Guattari suggest that a plateau "is a component of passage". That's its purpose: to be a passage that isn't interested in closing off, catching or imprisoning what we study. We are interested in enabling a unique dynamic for each participant and, at the same time, joyfully bringing together a diversity of points of view and ways of thinking and doing.

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Plateaus in 2025

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From March to August 2025, Dramaturgy on platô #11 and Writing on platô #12 were offered.

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Now, from September 2025 to February 2026, we'll be holding Dramaturgy on platô #13, an intensive laboratory for creating dramaturgies under the guidance of Diogo Liberano.

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