Abstract

This paper begins with a literature review on participation in the field of community artistic practices. The aim is to identify which is the significant dimensions acting within artistic creation involving professional and non-professional artists from the communities. These elements are then compared with the experience of three Brazilian theatre collectives. Using interviews and focus groups, this study explores creative and organisational group processes and their connection to conceptions of theatre. Our findings suggest that the processes reported by these collectives manifest many of the elements that the literature indicates as fundamental to the quality of participation experiences. These processes seem to promote the development of conceptions of politicised and experimental theatre that give rise to both cultural democratisation and cultural democracy. These conceptions also favour engagement with and perpetuation of high-quality artistic experiences, thus supporting a cycle of community artistic practices.

摘要

本文首先对参与社区艺术实践领域的文献进行了回顾。目的是确定哪些是在涉及社区专业和非专业艺术家的艺术创作中起作用的重要维度。然后将这些元素与三个巴西戏剧团体的经验进行比较。通过访谈和焦点小组，本研究探讨了创造性和组织性的群体过程及其与戏剧概念的联系。我们的研究结果表明，这些集体报告的过程体现了许多文献表明的参与体验质量的基本要素。这些过程似乎促进了政治化和实验性戏剧概念的发展，从而产生了文化民主化和文化民主化。这些概念也有利于参与和延续高质量的艺术体验，从而支持社区艺术实践的循环。