DEAD OR ALIVE - CONTRIBUTION TO A PRACTICAL, THEORETICAL AND SENSITIVE ECOLOGY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

For the past ten years, awareness of ecological issues has been growing seems to exert a growing influence on the entire political sphere, having notably led to the restructuring of public debates or to the creation new political parties. However, is politics really the only area to address these new questions? In this essay, Julie Sermon questions the new influence exerted by environmental issues on the field of performing arts and analyzes the effects of these interconnections on writing, acting, producing, and performing shows contemporaries. Through several specific examples, the author studies the articulations that link the fields of ecology and performing arts, both on the thematic plan (ecology becomes the central theme of a large number of shows), aesthetics (ecology is often seen as a form of exploration symbolic), or even pragmatic (awareness of the issues ecological changes the way of creating and producing shows). Dead or vifs is in line with ecocriticism, a theoretical approach transdisciplinary which emerged in the Anglo-Saxon academic sphere in the 1980s, which aims in particular to renew the framework for analyzing works produced by problematizing their links with ecology. By considering the arts of the scene as both a social practice and an artistic experience, Julie Sermon's essay presents itself as a point of reference allowing us to generate debates and discussions.