Dreaming as Performance. An Attempt to Explain the Phenomenon of the Inner Mental Theatre Stage

• Authors: Tomaž Krpič

Abstracts

EN

This article addresses the phenomenon of sleeping performance artists. Several performance artists have investigated or included sleep in their performance art. These artists radically transform Eric Bentley’s conventional theatre model from ‘A impersonates B, while C looks on’ into “A impersonates A, while A looks on.’ The sleeping performer builds a mental inner theatre stage inside their body, becoming the ‘spectActor,’ who simultaneously embodies both the performer and the spectator. The spectActor’s consciousness is generated by memories stored in his or her body. He or she is in the state of aesthetic inner-bodymind.

Keywords

EN

sleep; performance; body; spectActor; theatre stage

• Publisher: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 177
• Pages: 110-132

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Tomaž Krpič

• Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana University

• https://orcid.org/0000000170398630

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34762/qms5-ww69

Biblioteka Nauki

22337088