Spatial distance and practice of the encounter. A conversation around the hiatus in performing arts

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Estefanía Otaño
Leticia Paz Sena

Abstract

Where does the specificity of the performing arts lie? In the unattainable of the event, in the co-presence of bodies? Without denying the enormous permeability that exists today between different artistic languages -and theater is not an exception-, the sanitary measures that are being applied, in some way, gives prominence to the question of specificity. Since March, in Argentina, theatrical performances have been on hiatus for both spectators and practitioners, because the scene is emotional contagion, it is proximity, it is reunion. What does this stop mean? Is the very existence of the theater at risk? Does the pause enable some other form of the performing arts or it means its dissolution? While we are awaiting a return to the known state of affairs, we may find ourselves in a position to configure a welcome to the unknown. In this work, spectator and performer exchange and go over questions about what performing arts is rehearsing and imagining, but also about what they are not doing and about the power that could reside there.


 


 

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Otaño, E., & Paz Sena, L. (2020). Spatial distance and practice of the encounter. A conversation around the hiatus in performing arts. Heterotopías, 3(6), 1–18. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/31827
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Estefanía Otaño, Universidad Nacional de Còrdoba

EstefaníaOtaño is a playwright and actress. She has a Licenciate degree in Modern Languages from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba (UNC). She worked as coordinator of the independent theater room La LlamadaEscénica where she also gave workshops on theater and circus with children and young people independently. She is part of the collective of scenic creation "Crujen" and the project of research, creation and theatrical edition "La trenza; Tramascatamarcosantiagueñas". She finished her Master's degree in Drama at the National University of the Arts and is currently working on her thesis, where she is investigating the idea of erotic pain in monologue writing procedures in Susurro, a monologue that she writes and performs at the same time.

Leticia Paz Sena, Universidad Nacional de Còrdoba

Leticia Paz Sena works as a teacher in the entrance course to the School of Letters (FFYH, UNC) and the higher non-university level. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Literature (FFyH, UNC) through a research project entitled "Poetic and political configurations in the rewriting practices of contemporary playwriting in Córdoba", funded by a grant from the Secretariat of Science and Technology of the UNC. She is a literary proofreader, professor and licenciate in Modern Literature by the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba (UNC).

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