Teatru-dans - un spectacol total
Dance-theatre - the complete performance

Summary/Abstract: The basic idea of this study is that the syntagm Dance-theatre represents the nowadays name for the complete performance or the ideal representation, which twins different techniques in one work of art. The last years of the XXth century were marked by a profound reshaping, a reconsideration of the performing art, while the performer has taken center stage again. Merely, the performing art means not only the artist, the human being in action, but also the text/the script, the music, the set design, the costumes, the stage technique and the lights, the acting itself and the multimedia techniques. The teoreticians should answer to the artists’ challanges with a deep analysis of the way the arts interact in the contemporary performance, bringing forth new forms, which can be named as: drama mosaic, epic operas, dramatic cantatas, living film, composite theatre, visual poetry, dancing images or... Dance-Theatre. All these „new” formulas do not represent, in fact, more than a redescovery or an endless repetition of the already invented forms, already asked questions, already fought battles. Even if the first attempt do define the performing arts date back from Plato and Aristotle, the exegets of today feel the need to discuss again and reformulate the fundamental principles of the aestetics in the case of this „living work of art”.

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