Title: Um panorama do traje teatral brasileiro na quadrienal de Praga (1967-2015)
Abstract: There are few opportunities to expose a costume design out of the scene in an exhibition in which to reflect on the work created, their process and scenic proposals, both at home and abroad.The largest international exhibition of performance design happens, during the last 58 years, at the Czech Republic and brought together artists, researchers and students from ninety countries in the last edition in 2015.During the Prague Quadrennial , Brazil has been awarded several times, including with the top prize of the PQ: the Golden Triga, in 1995 and 2011.However, the lack of an institution responsible for organizing the country's participation causes instability in curatorial forms, as well as lack of funds.This study investigates how the Brazilian theatrical costume design is represented at the international exhibition.A route that is needed to start with the International Biennial of Visual Arts of Theater (1957Theater ( -1973)), an event created as a frame belonging to the Bienal de São Paulo and, after its fifth edition, would raise the Czech exhibition.An unpublished documentation with extensive documentary and iconographic rescue, makes up this thesis and serves as a fundamental object of study to recognize what position the scenic costume has in this twenty editions' trajectory, built over 58 years, to enable the research hypothesis of this thesis: confirm that, in the history of Brazilian participation at PQ, between 1987 and 2003 -when the representation of the country was in the care of set designer J. C. Serroni -there was some sort of curatorial preference by artists and / or works that led to the reinforcement of stereotypes of the Brazilian culture, highlighted the aesthetic features of the Carnival.