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SHAGI/STEPS 5(4)

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Alternative self-identification strategy in the theatrical field: Alexei Levinsky’s “Theater” studio

G. A. Shmatova
Russian State University for the Humanities (Russia, Moscow)

DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2019-5-4-149-160

Ключевые слова: studio theatre, Alexey Levinsky, amateurism, postwar generation, Participatory Art, Claire Bishop, Non-Official art

Аннотация: This article provides an attempt to contextualize a significant participant in the Soviet and Russian theatrical field — the “Theater” studio, created by Alexei Levinsky in 1978. The studio “Theater” is treated as a unique phenomenon, determined by the biography of its creator, Alexey Levinsky, direct successor to the Vsevolod Meyerhold tradition. At the same time, the studio is considered as an important phenomenon in the context of the late Soviet era and the generational interaction problem. Without due attention to this “symbolic focus of solidarity” (as sociologist Boris Dubin defines this generation), it is difficult to describe the strategies of “Theater” and its place not only among other studios and laboratory theater groups, but also within a more complex system of sociocultural relations.
The article reconstructs the system of coordinates and oppositions which is relevant for Levinsky and which influences the studio’s methods of self-identification: official — unofficial, commercial — non-commercial, professional — non-professional. For Levinsky, a non-professional in the theater is determined first of all through the special quality of subjectivity and individuality and a particular purpose of performing stage art. Optics, in which the theater studio is seen as a subject’s self-knowledge space, purposely separated from other ideologically or commercially charged spheres, makes it possible to compare the experience of Levinsky and of the Non-Official art of the 1970s–1980s. Using the concept of “Participatory Art”, introduced by the American researcher K. Bishop, we analyze Levinsky’s amateur studio as a democratized form of collaboration in the Soviet context, in which collectivism is the norm imposed by the state.

Для цитирования: Shmatova, G. A. (2019). Alternative self-identification strategy in the theatrical field: Alexei Levinsky’s “Theater” studio. Shagi/Steps, 5(4), 149–160. (In Russian). DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2019-5-4-149-160.