Spectators or Participants? A Major Creative Shift in Performing Arts or a Change of Status? (Remarks on a Process)

Authors

  • Marian POPESCU Professor of Performance Studies and Communication at the University of Bucharest, e-mail: marian.popescu@fjsc.ro; http://www.marianpopescu.arts.ro

Keywords:

spectator, theatre, performance, perspective, identification, representation, consubstantiality, digital culture

Abstract

This article is a reflection of my research on the Anatomic Theatre. I question the theatre performance in the digital culture that makes out of this specific artistic procedure - to place the viewer as a Witness or as a Participant - one of the accommodating narratives of the theatre. Theatre direction is thus a μεταφορά (“transport” in Gr.), a theoretical vehicle that would result in a practice where viewers’ position towards performance is disputed between being Spectator or Participant.

Author Biography

Marian POPESCU, Professor of Performance Studies and Communication at the University of Bucharest, e-mail: marian.popescu@fjsc.ro; http://www.marianpopescu.arts.ro

MARIAN POPESCU is Professor at the University of Bucharest where he’s currently teaching Public Communication, Performance and Creative Communication, Journalism and the Performing Arts and Presentation and Speaking in Public. Main expertise in: Communication, Performing Arts and Cultural Policies. In 2011 he published Theatre and Communication. Current research activities are focused on the performativity of speaking in public.

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STUDIA UBB DRAMATICA, Volume 60 (LX), No. 2, October 2015

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Published

2015-10-30

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POPESCU, M. (2015). Spectators or Participants? A Major Creative Shift in Performing Arts or a Change of Status? (Remarks on a Process). Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Dramatica, 65(2), 233–238. Retrieved from https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbdramatica/article/view/4473

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Volume 60, No. 2, October 2015

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