Presentation: Creative processes in the performing arts.

Theater, dance and performance

Abstract

The dossier's thematic proposal aims to be a contribution to a theoretical and critical reflection on the creative processes involved in the performing arts, especially in theater, dance and performance. The investigation of the researchers, creators and curators of the performing arts is oriented to find answers to key questions about creative processes rather than about the finished artistic work. How does an idea come up? How to develop it? What are the best communication strategies? Who is creative or how does someone get creative? They are questions that inquire about the necessary link between theory and practice from a double perspective: one of a singular nature when resorting to the individual sense of artistic work, that is, the artist facing the dilemmas of creation; and another of a social nature where the modes and urgencies of communication typical of the actuality of creation come into play. Inspiration, invention and work; emotion, psyche and rationality; experimentation and poetic and aesthetic consolidation based on a creative plan; the means, resources and technical innovation are constituted in the thematic universes that are fundamental for any creative process in art.