Abstracts / résumés
Abstracts / résumésKonferenz / Colloque International / Conference
Vielsprachigkeit,
Transnationalität, Kulturwissenschaften
Plurilinguisme,
Transnationalité, Sciences Culturelles
Multilingualism,
Transnationality, Cultural Sciences
(Wien / Vienne / Vienna, 6.-9.12.2001)
This contribution will give an outline of a theatre development based on how there is a shift in perspective from aesthetics and representation to context and shared experience. Classical, textual representation was replaced by a visual dramaturgy in the perspective of a post-dramatic theatre. This also indicated a recycling of rituals and image as means of expressions of an autonomous kind in theatre, and it led to the establishment of an international project theatre growing out of the deconstruction of institutional theatre and hierarchies.
As a further consequence of this development, upon the introduction of a new contextual research in art and science some companies would take a further step into finding new contexts for theatre. This would include site-specific work and the application of the house music club as a model for a shared experience. Sampling and digital techniques would be new means of expression, also including social gatherings and interactivity.
This has been referred upon as the urban, pop-ambient direction as a post-mainstream category. Another category is the ethnic, ambient direction of theatre and dance among aboriginal people and in geographically seen very marginal areas. In between these two directions the community theatre can be seen as a way of working on politics and identity questions related to multiculturalism, young people or political consciousness. Pop-community theatre takes some of the elements from urban, pop-ambient expressions, but also involving strategies of consciousness making and identity related entertainment.
Examples of companies in between pop-ambient and pop-community
theatre are the Norwegian Baktruppen, British-German Gob-Squad
and the Belgian Company Victoria. A pop-community direction can
be seen in the work of the Hong Kong-Chinese Archaeology Bird
Workshop as well as with some of the works presented at the Johannesburg
Market Theatre Community Theatre festival.
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