FAI-AR (Franţa) – un model de bune practici şi un argument pentru un program de masterat în domeniul artelor stradale

Abstract

The article aims to investigate a model of good practices in the field of higher education focused on street arts and implicitly on street theatre at European level, using as a case study the Formation supérieure d’art en espace public (FAI-AR) - a French formal school of artistic training dedicated to creation in the public space. In an attempt to identify a methodology for street arts that could be taught formally, we have looked at what such schools that already exist in Europe in search of a possible curriculum for street arts or street theatre. Our research has led us to the French cultural space where in fact the only such school exists in Europe, namely the Formation supérieure d’art en espace public (FAI-AR), born from the street arts movement that developed in France in the 1970s and founded in 2004 in Marseille by the well-known French director Michel Crespin, whose name is linked to other institutions emblematic for the history of street arts. FAI-AR offers four cycles or study programs with variable durations and is addressed to professional artists and technicians who want to develop their skills in street arts within several professional categories - playwrights, directors, choreographers, visual artists, set designers, performers, actors, dancers, graffiti artists, circus artists, musicians, storytellers, puppeteers, urban professionals, architects, urban planners, designers, landscapers, geographers or project „accompanists”, cultural mediators, managers, producers, administrators, decorators, stage managers, technicians etc. The four vocational training programs that the school offers free of charge, with the help of subsidy programs from the French state, are: higher education (formation supérieure); continuous training (formation continue); online MOOC courses (massive open online courses); and research internships (salons de recherche).