The theater as a multi-significant cultural phenomenon and interactive communication system, as artistic creation, social event and formative/educational good constitutes both the bearer and the content of civilisation, the trace and the indicator of the human course of development from the primitive era to the age of globalization. Continue Reading
-
“The Theater as Cultural Phenomenon”, Athens: Papazisis ed., 2015
-
Re-visiting the Community: The Politics of Theatre Beyond the Theatre
Weakening spectatorship
What the trajectory of modern Western theatre shows is a drastic taming of the audience. Paradoxically, the discovery of the “physiological man” that realism and naturalism achieved, as Garner accurately points out, was accompanied by a perceptual deactivation of the audience’s own physical presence (2007: 116). Continue Reading -
The folk tale of the pied piper of Hamelin for an animating theatre pedagogy
DRAMA ANIMATION
Some people might ask why theatre is so important during school: the answer is, in order to lighten up the children’s souls, to help them achieve self-knowledge through the significant, everyday issues of life presented to them, as well as to make them discover the many prospects of knowledge and understand the functions of being. By offering them an overall perception of themselves and the world, theatre becomes a vehicle for holistic learning. Continue Reading -
Pedagogical use of the storytelling in a contemporary educational environment
The folktale narration goes back to art and the tradition of oral speech, (Ong 1984: 1-12) in a period of time when there was no written speech. (Levy- Bruh 1985) Its context is the imaginary narration of events and actions with a natural/real or extra-terrestrial/supernatural character, which represented the initial source of knowledge and learning for the primitive man (Levi- Strauss 1966). Later, by becoming more sophisticated, it was turned into a special cultural expression of the people and was monopolized almost by a children’s audience and the literature for children (Biakolo 1999: 42-65). Continue Reading
-
The reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy in late Modernity: From the Citizen- Viewer of the City-State to the Consumer-Viewer of the global Cosmopolis
Ancient Greek drama, a product of unique composition comprising various and, sometimes, conflicting parameters (mythical time and objective space, philosophical rationalism and mythical consciousness, religious background and festive traditions, ritual and social entertainment, educational resource and political awareness), remains a living spectacle and represents, in all its timelessness, the concept of “classical,” probably better than any other form of art and culture (literature, sculpture, painting, etc.).
-
Traditional forms of the postmodern environment the story teller as a performer
The narration of the events and situations, human actions and behaviors with cosmological, ethical, social or other context, as the capture of the spirit, via the human being tried to give the picture that he had for the world and its place in it. With a way purely imaginary and mythological at first that was made more objective later, he passed from the myth to the legend, in tradition and they were transformed into history and science Continue Reading