How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal
Constructing coherence by recycling
This paper investigates how a group of young adults
participating in theatre rehearsals construct a spontaneous
improvised scene. The analysis shows how the youths construct a
fairly coherent scene in a situation in which the interactional
moves and the interactional frame emerges. We analyse how the
improvisation is initiated, how it is carried forward, and how the
scene is discussed afterwards. After the improvised scene, it
emerged that the participants had differing conceptions of what
exactly they had been doing. However, these differing conceptions
did not hinder them from participating and contributing to the scene
in coherent ways and were thus sufficiently similar for practical
purposes. In our analysis, we focus on how the youths constructed
the scene by recycling lexemes, syntactic forms and embodied
actions.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data and method
- 3.Analysis
- 3.1Preceding scene: Getting going and getting stuck
- 3.2Moving on to improvisation and constructing coherence
- 3.3Orchestrating with embodiments
- 3.4Reflecting on the scene
- 4.Discussion
-
Acknowledgements
-
Notes
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