Šokis šiuolaikiniame Lietuvos dramos teatre

Abstract

In the end of the twentieth century after the predominance of visualization in the Western European theatre, text/discourse is often eliminated and replaced by other means of expression. the boom of movement art, felt in the last decades, has influenced the occurrence of new forms of art. Although the combination of different genres of art has always existed in theatre, only recently the attitude towards interpretation of separate elements of a play has changed. Nowadays various art forms are combined in a play because verbal expression is not enough anymore. Thus movement forms have become a natural phenomenon in theatre. In the ninth decade Lithuanian stage directors began to put on stage new quality plays, where dance forms are used for different purposes: dance exists as a part of the plot, verbal expression is emphasised by means of a dance or the structure of a play is usually that of a dance. Moreover, dance plays appear on the stage. Basic changes in Lithuanian drama are associated with such names as Eimuntas Nekrošius, Rimas Tuminas, Oskaras Koršunovas, Birutė Marcinkevičiūtė and Andželika Cholina. The present thesis is an analysis of the expression of dance in Lithuanian drama theatre. It is based mainly on literature in English on movement art tendencies of the world and their existence in theatre, as well as on criticisms of Lithuanian plays and reviews of stage directors. There are two major parts in the present paper: the first is historical theoretical survey of the movement art on stage of the last two decades, whereas the second part is an analysis of Lithuanian dance plays and drama theatre plays which integrate dance. The attempt is made to show the inevitability of new quality plays.[...]