LATVIAN THEATRE IN PANDEMIC TRANSITION: EXPERIENCE OF BALTIC DRAMA FORUM 2020
LATVIAN THEATRE IN PANDEMIC TRANSITION: EXPERIENCE OF BALTIC DRAMA FORUM 2020
Author(s): Lauma Mellēna-BartkevičaSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Latvijas Kultūras akadēmija
Keywords: pandemic; theatre; online; transition; mediatization; Baltic Drama Forum;
Summary/Abstract: The breakout of Covid-19 pandemic and the related social distancing requirements closed all theatres and forced everyone to move to digital platforms and look for alternative presence solutions in public events. It also made us reconsider the term liveness in the context of screen-mediated theatrical experience and brought to hybrid solutions that would have not been accepted previously. The article tackles the development of theatre processes during the first period of emergency state in Latvia (March – June, 2020) and aims to document the experience of theatre forum organized at the beginning of November 2020 literally on the threshold of the second-wave related lockdown in culture. It aims to address to immediate impacts of Covid-19 to theatre ecosystem in Latvia and illustrate the ongoing way to inevitable changes in culture industry.
Journal: Culture Crossroads
- Issue Year: 19/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 89-97
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English