Preliminary communication

THE STAGE AS A PLACE OF CHALLENGING INTEGRATION

Ivana Katarinčić ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Iva Niemčić ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Tvrtko Zebec orcid.org/0000-0002-9222-5340 ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The stage is a unique public space where a number of messages are performed and produced in different ways and where social and cultural differences may be made visible. Through the examples of music and dance, the musical and/or political stage are discussed, different mechanisms of integration are presented and the stage is interpreted as a space where certain fields of tension are visibly encountered as binary oppositions: collective – individual; global – local; great tradition – little tradition. Multiple strategies of performers are examined and performance as a type of communication that involves the performer shouldering a special responsibility before the audience, not only for what is to be communicated, but also how. Using a three case studies, it is explored how the (un)conscious mixing of forms, styles and
expressions builds on and presupposes a preceding process of
standardisation, purification and homogenisation, and what is visible on the stage as well as what is beyond it.

Keywords

stage; dance; ethnography; integration; global/local

Hrčak ID:

39156

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/39156

Publication date:

30.6.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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