The Art of (Re) Performance: Interpreting Theatre and Dance History in the Museum

英国久负盛名的表演艺术传统在博物馆部门的代表性不足，国家表演收藏品只有一个专门的展览空间，即V&A剧院和表演画廊。现有的策展方法不能满足过去表演活动的活力，而且迄今还没有受益于在世界其他地方将重新表演作为一种解释性战略的明显有效使用。这项研究采用跨学科的方法，研究博物馆如何对表演历史进行参与式和多感官的解释，从而持续地唤起表演体验的具体化和社会性。以表演、戏剧和博物馆研究为理论框架，通过对当前国际实践的分析，结合对表演者的初步探索性研究，提供了在相关博物馆空间内进行实验的实用方法。这项实验探索了博物馆如何利用他们的藏品和自我指导基于重新表演的解释，在没有表演者在场的情况下唤起历史表演体验的身体和空间物理，专注于维多利亚时代哑剧的特定主题。对表演者的感受、情感、认知和具体化的演绎体验的研究将被用来提出一种在英国背景下解释表演艺术史的潜在方法。

The UK's long established and much celebrated performing arts tradition is under-represented within the museum sector, and national performance collections have just one dedicated exhibition space, the V&A Theatre and Performance galleries. Existing curatorial approaches do not meet the dynamism of past performative events, and have not, as yet, benefitted from the demonstrably effective use of re-performance as an interpretative strategy elsewhere in the world. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this research examines how museums can implement a participatory and multi-sensory interpretation of performance history that evokes the embodied, social nature of the performance experience on a sustained basis. With a theoretical framework drawn from performance, theatre, and museum studies, an analysis of current practices internationally, in combination with preliminary exploratory research with performers, informs a practical methodology of experimentation within relevant museum spaces. This experimentation explores how museums can utilise their collections and self-guide re-performance based interpretation to evoke the bodily and spatial physicality of a historic performance experience without the physical presence of performers, focusing on the particular topic of Victorian pantomime. Research on performers felt, emotional, cognitive and embodied performers' experiences of the interpretation will be used to propose a potential approach for interpreting performing arts history within the UK context.