26 January 2011
Lecture given by Pete Brooks: “Performance & Design”
Which is the difference between dramaturgy and stenography?
Dramaturgy is the idea, the structure of a performance while stenography is everything that happens in the space: light, music etc.
Pete is interested manly in playing with stenography, because aloud him to tell different stories in the same piece of theatre.
Pete is interested also in the relation between cinema end theatres. People who go to the cinema expect pleasure on the contrary when they go to the theatre they expect to discover something new: they are looking for an intellectual grown.
After the theatre revolution of Bertold Brecht (1898-1956) the story, the dramaturgy of a performance turned into an intellectual level. People were not anymore sentimentally involved, no one cried at the theatre! The illusion of the theatre is broken forever; stimulating real emotion is becoming more and more difficult.
The aim of Pete’s works is to tell stories that involve the audience not only intellectually but also emotionally. Thereby he decided to create pieces of theatre where the language of graphic animation and cinema where amalgamate with stenography. He thinks that animation could reach the gap between fiction and reality. With this new kind of stenography he is tiring to give at the spectator an emotional engaging experience.
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