Electronic Issue "Scientific Research"

ISSN: 1312-7535
Title Dancing theater – the universal language of the stage of today
Authors Associate professor Dr Miroslava Kortenska

Abstract

Since the middle of the 20-th century, modern art processes have been developing - under the strong influence of the Freud's discovery which has directed the public attention to the human subconsciousness - because of the fact that the impact on the public is not formed solely by deliberate and didactic formulation of messages, mainly by verbal ways. The style of life, the realism were displaced by more synthetic and influencing theatrical trends. Besides, the absurdists, and later Pinter, caught the degradation of the action-speech-and-thought unity in modern man, painfully perceiving the devaluation of words and their sense. In parallel to this, a strong trends appears - of seeking new cosmopolitan language in the theater - more adequate to the time at the end of the 20-th century and more influencing in the epoch of the new technologies. Theatrical reformers - such as Grotovsky, Robert Wilsel, Eugenio Barba, as well as choreographers of the level of Martha Gream and Pina Bausch - seek in different directions, but having the same general objective, an international universal stage language able to express the common values and dilemmas of the time. In such context are interesting the progressing directions of the Bulgarian "scenery". Such are: the quest for modern dancing by the "Arabesk" studio and its leading figures, Boryana Sechanova and Mila Iskrenova, and, on the other hand, the renewal of our theaters by a language for the nowadays' stage (searches by the producers Vazkresiya Viharova and Lili Abadzhieva). The nowadays actors are compelled to come out of their daily ordinary body and behavior and to place themselves in a context of "general validity" where they transform into instruments for creating new language - of body language and alphabet of vision.

 

Key words: Europe - Bulgaria, innovation and renewal, universal language, body language.

Orientation: Theatrical art - "The universal language of the modern stage"


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About Authors

Associate professor Dr Miroslava Kortenska

South-West University "N. Rilski" - Blagoevgrad

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