Ecological perspectives in performing arts for children
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https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5311Keywords:
performing arts for children, eco-theatre, posthumanism, art and natureAbstract
This essay discusses ecological perspectives in performing arts for children, and the relationship between art, humans, animals, and our physical surroundings in the light of ideas about posthumanism, sympoiesis and artistic research processes. Artistic research methods have been used through the performing arts research project Neither Fish nor Fowl (Hovik, 2017-23) for kindergarten kids by and with Teater Fot, a theatre company led by the author. The final performance Animalium (Teater Fot, 2019-23), which provides examples for this essay, is developed through an improvisational and devised process guided by post humanist theories and plays with blurring the differences and disturbing the dividing lines between animals and humans. The research question examines how we can put ourselves aside, so that art and nature come more into view. The essay prepares for some new ecological approaches towards performing arts for children and sums up with a proposal on turning the attention to affect and emotional engagement, the sympoiesis of a “new we” and community between species, as well as staging utopian futures.
Cover photo: Mattias Ormestad
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