Exposition

Musical Psycho Performance (2024)

Gianmarco Moneti

About this exposition

Although I love attending traditional classical music concerts, I have long felt that they missed certain aspects that would make them more relatable to the inner world of the audience. In this research exposition, I argue that this missing aspect is a social element and I guide the reader through a possible application of social themes to a classical music concert. On a formal level, I use the techniques of psychodrama – a form of group therapy – as a tool from which I borrow some fundamental concepts, along with the conception of characters, to understand how social themes can be addressed in a context in which multiple people connect to the same object. In this case, the object of common interest is the representation on stage. On a substantial level, I draw upon material I collected in my interviews with Clara Scarafia to study a social theme she has been directly involved with: suicide. The two levels are brought together in my pilot session, where I experiment through a sample of the complete performance I am designing and an audience questionnaire how psychodrama and the interview interact and influence one another. The goal is to show that the classical repertoire, with its complex emotional kaleidoscope and non-verbal language, can easily bear a social theme and enhance the collective reflection of relevant themes in our times.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsBeyond Discipline, socially engaged art, Performance art
date18/01/2023
published05/06/2024
last modified05/06/2024
statuspublished
share statuspublic
copyrightAll rights reserved
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1910510/2401516
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/koncon.1910510
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue1. Master Research Projects


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