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Migrations and Theatre: Intercultural Performance in the Global World

As a form of theatre which merges various theatrical traditions and artistic codes, intercultural theatre has always been a contested genre. While some have celebrated it for promoting a dialogue between cultures, others have perceived it as a contemporary form of colonialism. Changes on the global political scene, marked by the decay of national boundaries and fixed national identities, pose new challenges for intercultural theatre. The purpose of this presentation is to analyze the status of intercultural theatre in the contemporary world by drawing on recent examples of the genre, such as Robert Lepage’s “The Blue Dragon”. According to Patrice Pavis (2010), Lepage’s performance reflects the global currents of migration, and represents an “ethnoscape”, a space constructed of immigrants, tourists, and refugees that shape the contemporary world. Intercultural performances such as “The Blue Dragon” raise questions on the role of intercultural theatre in postmodern times. What is the purpose of intercultural performance today – to reflect the lack of fixed identities, or to preserve cultural identity by affirming difference? Can we even talk of an intercultural theatre, which implies the merging of differences, in a period which is marked by the abolishment of differences?

intercultural theatre, globalization, migrations, postmodernism, Robert Lepage

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