THE STAGE AS A PLACE OF CHALLENGING INTEGRATION
THE STAGE AS A PLACE OF CHALLENGING INTEGRATION

Summary/Abstract: The stage is a unique public space where a number of messages are performed and produced in different ways and where social and cultural differences may be made visible. Through the examples of music and dance, the musical and/or political stage are discussed, different mechanisms of integration are presented and the stage is interpreted as a space where certain fields of tension are visibly encountered as binary oppositions: collective – individual; global – local; great tradition – little tradition. Multiple strategies of performers are examined and performance as a type of communication that involves the performer shouldering a special responsibility before the audience, not only for what is to be communicated, but also how. Using a three case studies, it is explored how the (un)conscious mixing of forms, styles and expressions builds on and presupposes a preceding process of standardisation, purification and homogenisation, and what is visible on the stage as well as what is beyond it.

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