Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society, Volume 2 : Case Studies

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. 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 Bibliography Index V. 1. "Volume 1 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society inquires the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfulness, 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. The various epistemic approaches present here, refer to sociology, theatre studies, cultural studies, psychology, economy of culture, and social statistics which observe theatre as a social phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher Volume 2 of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society presents several qualitative and quantitative researches on the social roles of the theatre and performance, as organized institutions or social groups, in contemporary society.