Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role
The conversation about the director’s changing identity, as our century gallops towards or stumbles through challenges that few could have anticipated even a few years—let alone months—ago is becoming all the more complex. Today, directing practice has crossed many disciplines, methodologies and eco...
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| description | The conversation about the director’s changing identity, as our century gallops towards or stumbles through challenges that few could have anticipated even a few years—let alone months—ago is becoming all the more complex. Today, directing practice has crossed many disciplines, methodologies and ecologies of theatre-making. My article sets out to explore some emergent dynamics that reflect the director’s role within the current performance landscape; a landscape in which directorial jurisdictions are no longer contained within the realm of pre-scripted dramatic plays and one which engages with unconventional performance environments framed by the proliferation of intermedial forms, intercultural collaborations and a variety of human and nonhuman (im)materialities. In so doing, I will set out to locate the shift from perceiving the director commonly as the production’s single uncontested authority to an agent of symbiotic meaning making. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb06999dfee64a318dcfcde95b217cf02022-12-21T19:24:22ZengIATCCritical Stages2409-74112020-12-0122Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised RoleAvra SidiropoulouThe conversation about the director’s changing identity, as our century gallops towards or stumbles through challenges that few could have anticipated even a few years—let alone months—ago is becoming all the more complex. Today, directing practice has crossed many disciplines, methodologies and ecologies of theatre-making. My article sets out to explore some emergent dynamics that reflect the director’s role within the current performance landscape; a landscape in which directorial jurisdictions are no longer contained within the realm of pre-scripted dramatic plays and one which engages with unconventional performance environments framed by the proliferation of intermedial forms, intercultural collaborations and a variety of human and nonhuman (im)materialities. In so doing, I will set out to locate the shift from perceiving the director commonly as the production’s single uncontested authority to an agent of symbiotic meaning making.https://www.critical-stages.org/22/rethinking-authority-creativity-and-authorship-in-twenty-first-century-performance-the-directors-revised-role/directorspectatingcollectivitytextualityperformativitypresentnesscastellucciraurimini protokollruping |
| spellingShingle | Avra Sidiropoulou Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role Critical Stages director spectating collectivity textuality performativity presentness castellucci rau rimini protokoll ruping |
| title | Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role |
| title_full | Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role |
| title_short | Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role |
| title_sort | rethinking authority creativity and authorship in twenty first century performance the director s revised role |
| topic | director spectating collectivity textuality performativity presentness castellucci rau rimini protokoll ruping |
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