Embodiment of Landscape

Περίληψη

This paper aims to explore the actor-spectator relationship outside the ordinary theatrical context, questioning the tension that is established between the extra-daily practices of the theatre and the space of reality. This is a theatre model that ignores any technical input (light/audio) and which considers the landscape as an interpretative representation of the territory, in a relationship equivalent to that which exists between show and text.

The spatial dramaturgy of the artistic direction of Festival w in nature – a paradigmatic example is the Stromboli Eco Logical Theatre Festival in Messina - is capable of promoting a poetic practice of scaling and orientation according to the precepts of scenic practice and, in particular, of improvisation so that the human being can recognize himself as part of a living world.

The hypothesis I will attempt to demonstrate is that if the theatrical is first and foremost a relational fact - as such total and circular - any anatomical analysis of its parts must be overcome by the centrifugal force, of synthesis and assembly, that results in landscape.

Reflection on the Theatre Festival in Nature also becomes the potential key to returning to question the constitutive reasons of certain movements which, at regular intervals, continue to focus attention on the combination of theatre and space.

The recognition of the environment, and its intrinsic potential, becomes the obvious prerequisite for returning to action, to regain the prerequisites of the creative gesture and its vital space.