This second volume of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society offers several different case studies in their relationship with society. Also here, the focus is the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfullness, in addition to fulfilling economic and regulatory needs. As symbolic forms of collective social practices, artistic and cultural forms weave the meaning of a territory, a context, and a people, but also of the generations who traverse these same cultures.
These forms of meaning interact with the social imagery, mediate marginalization, transform barriers into bridges, and are the indispensable tools for any social coexistence and its continuous rethinking in everyday life.
Contributors are: Claudio Bernardi, Marco Bernardi, Massimo Bertoldi, Martina Guerinoni, Mara Nerbano, Chiara Pasanisi, Benedetta Pratelli, Roberto Prestigiacomo, Ilaria Riccioni, Daniela Salinas Frigerio, Eleonora Sparano, Emanuele Stochino, Matteo Tamborrino, Tiziana Tesauro, Katia Trifirò, Alessandro Tolomelli, and Andrea Zardi.
Author(s): Ilaria Riccioni
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 236
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 248
City: Leiden
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 The Impact of Theatre in a Multilingual Province: The Case of the Teatro Stabile of Bolzano between New and Old Generations
1.1 The Specific Nature of the Territory: From Multilingualism to Multiculturalism
1.2 The Research
1.3 Analysis
1.4 Methodology
1.5 Emerged Categories
1.5.1 Performance and Social Engagement
1.5.2 Other Elements Which Emerged from the Interviews
1.6 Analysis of the Questionnaires
1.6.1 Some Data
1.6.2 Types of Interviewee
1.7 Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Chapter 2 The Anomaly of the Teatro Stabile of Bolzano: A Public Theater on the Border, between Different Languages and Cultures
2.1 The Origins
2.2 Mitteleuropean Dramaturgy
2.3 Dramaturgy of the Territory
2.4 The Bolzano Theatre Award
2.5 Theatre and Society
2.6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 3 State Theater of Bolzano: 70 Years: History and Shows in a Book
3.1 Goals and Characteristics of the Book
3.1.1 A Historiographical Gap to Fill
3.1.2 Sources and Research Tools
3.1.3 Structure of the Book
3.2 The Season of Instability
3.2.1 Historical Peculiarities of the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano
3.2.2 The Direction of Fantasio Piccoli (1950–66)
3.2.3 The Direction of Maurizio Scaparro (1968–75)
3.2.4 The Direction of Alessandro Fersen
3.3 The Season of Stability
3.3.1 From Crisis to Revival
3.3.2 The Direction of Marco Bernardi (1980–2015)
3.3.3 The Final Location and the New Cultural Orientations
3.3.4 The Direction of Walter Zambaldi (2015–)
3.3.5 The Online Archive of the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano
Bibliography
Chapter 4 The Interviews for the Research on the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano: Some Methodological Considerations
4.1 Selection of the Interviewees
4.2 The Empirical Material
4.3 The Interviews
4.4 A Brief Comparison with the Written Interviews
4.5 Theatre and Digital Language
4.6 In Conclusion, What Proposals Exist on the Subject of Integration?
Bibliography
Chapter 5 Social Theatre, a Polyphonic Dramaturgy of the Community
5.1 A Glocal World
5.2 Social Theatre
5.3 The Polyphonic Dramaturgy of the Communities
Bibliography
Chapter 6 From the Creative Process to the Relationship with the City: The Theatre of the ‘Margin’ by the Carullo-Minasi Company (Messina, 2011–2021)
6.1 Introduction
Bibliography
Chapter 7 Theatre Festivals and Urban Public Border Crossing: Practices in Comparison
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Contextualization
7.3 Case Studies
7.4 Festivals and Territories: A New Bond
Bibliography
Chapter 8 A Relational Theatre: Fabrizio Crisafulli’s “Theatre of Places”
8.1 Fabrizio Crisafulli’s Biography, between Social Commitment and Engagement in Theatrical Research
8.2 The “Theatre of Places”: Definition of a Practice
8.3 At the Dawn of Research on the Place: “Spirito dei Luoghi” (1996–1998)
8.4 A Performance of Struggle and Poetry: “Alieni nati” (2018)
8.5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 9 Introducing Performing Human Rights
Bibliography
Chapter 10 On Stage without a Script: A Theatrical Workshop for Professional Training
10.1 Theoretical Background
10.2 The Theatrical Workshop
10.3 Weaving a New Plot: Poems, Texts and Stories
10.4 Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 11 The Theater of the Oppressed as a Martial Art: Theatre, Community, Pedagogy and Politics
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Theatre as a Field of Struggle
11.3 Essential Theatre, Ascesis, Metaphor: Key Concepts
11.4 Aesthetics Is Politics
Bibliography
Chapter 12 Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Theatre of the Word
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Change within Italian Society between 1960 and 1970
12.3 Pasolini and the Theatre of the Word
12.4 The Theatre of the Word as a Cultural Rite
12.5 The Most Frequent Criticism of Pasolini’s Tragedies
12.6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Sitography
Chapter 13 Dramaturgies of Distancing: Dance and Public Space in the Covid Era
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Political Dramatist
13.3 The Race to Digital
13.4 New Criticism, What Visions?
13.5 Inside Theatre: An Eden in Bolzano
13.6 Outside the Theatre: Perspectiva
13.7 Conclusions
Bibliography
Sitography
Chapter 14 La Trilogia del naufragio by Lina Prosa: Dramaturgy and Poetic of Inclusion
14.1 “Outside and Around the Stage”: A Trilogy between Stage and Reality
14.2 Dramaturgy, Words, Body
Bibliography
Chapter 15 The Lavanderia a Vapore, from Madhouse to Dancehouse: A Contemporary Experience of Relationship between Theatrical Space and Territorial Communities
15.1 An Introduction
15.2 From Asylum to House of Dance
15.3 Media Dance: Forms of Innovation for the School Community
15.4 Between Parkinson’s, Dance and Philosophy: Dance Well in Collegno
15.5 Residencies and Sharing in the House of Artists
Bibliography
Chapter 16 Performing Arts and Practices for the Inclusion of Migrants in Milan
Bibliography
Chapter 17 Teleaudiencias Teatrales: Crisis of a Representation
17.1 The Beginning
17.2 Theatre and Cinema: Hic et nunc
17.3 Chile: Digital Problems. The Dramatic Arts in Crisis
17.4 Festival Ensambles: A Creative Experiment
17.5 The Future
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Index
