Abstract:

The essay advocates for expanding theater studies publications to more effectively engage with global majority epistemologies as core methodologies for analyzing theatrical phenomena. Academic theatre classes often incorporate performance studies paradigms, but most theater programs remain centered around practice-based exercises for acting, directing, designing, and producing Eurocentric theater. Global majority ways of telling stories are either not taught to students or are integrated into curricula in carefully measured doses as alternative approaches to art-making. This essay encourages twenty-first century scholars to more astutely respond to cultural productions based upon vernacular and indigenous ways of theatrical storytelling, arguing that a significant step would be to incorporate more indigenous languages, and perhaps have the journal publish in multiple languages (with translation) to expand the readership. However, even foregrounding text-based performance may be limiting. Many of the aesthetics that underly arts production in global majority cultures are constituted outside of text-based paradigms; they use symbol, myth, sound, gesture, dance language, and music as poetic containers for delivering their messages. They also build from local epistemologies connected to spirituality, religion, or alternative beliefs about the rationale and intention of performance. This essay calls for more time and space devoted to critical analysis of theatre created and performed outside of standard theatre venues, as well as a more nuanced discussion of complex ecosystems that support artistic innovation.

摘要：

该文章主张扩大戏剧研究出版物，以更有效地参与全球主流认识论作为分析戏剧现象的核心方法。学术戏剧课程通常包含表演研究范式，但大多数戏剧课程仍然以表演、导演、设计和制作欧洲中心戏剧的实践练习为中心。全球大多数讲故事的方式要么没有教给学生，要么被仔细衡量的剂量纳入课程中，作为艺术创作的替代方法。本文鼓励二十一世纪的学者更敏锐地回应基于乡土和本土戏剧讲故事方式的文化作品，认为重要的一步是纳入更多本土语言，也许让期刊以多种语言出版（带有翻译） ）扩大读者群。然而，即使基于文本的前景性能也可能受到限制。全球主流文化中艺术生产的许多美学都是在基于文本的范式之外构成的；他们使用符号、神话、声音、手势、舞蹈语言和音乐作为传达信息的诗意容器。它们还建立在与灵性、宗教或有关表演的基本原理和意图的其他信仰相关的当地认识论的基础上。本文呼吁投入更多的时间和空间，对在标准剧院场地之外创作和表演的戏剧进行批判性分析，并对支持艺术创新的复杂生态系统进行更细致的讨论。