The Expanded Scene: Crossroads Between Theater, Cinema and Video - Concepts and Multiple Poetics ma, and Video

Abstract

The text discusses the relationship between theater and digital technologies, especially recorded and projected images. It questions whether the "live performance" is still composed of actors in flesh and blood, and that screens can open new spaces for imagination and alter the audience's perception, exploring a changing world. The text also discusses the arrival of digital images in theater, highlighting how digital technology has expanded the possibilities of creation and documentation of the scene. The presence of images in the theatrical scene shifts the spectator's perception and expands the possibilities of the play. Theater has always had a relationship with cinema, but digital language brings new possibilities and challenges concepts such as identification, illusion, spectator, and presence. Technological advancements have allowed creators of the stage to expand their methods of creation, inventing devices and crossing results. By the end of the 20th century, procedures involving the intersection of cinema and theater emerged in the theatrical scene, such as using films as creative material, the influence of accelerated editing in cinema on the rhythm of the staging, projecting overlaid images onto the scene, using recorded soundtracks, and recording rehearsals on video. These technologies have expanded the possibilities of theatrical creation and the recording of performances on video.