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Journalistic Theater

A Case Study of Reporting on People’s Emotional Response to Current Affairs With the Body as Medium

This article provides a detailed case study of “journalistic theater,” focusing on Teatro di Nascosto, an Italy-based international group creating public events in the Middle East and Europe. Employing a reconstruction method, the study explores the production process of The Catwalk (2018, 2019), a series of performances on people’s daily lives and emotional responses to current affairs in conflict zones. The article offers 3 main perspectives on news work at the intersection of journalism and performance arts. First, live experience performance can enhance news work with artist-journalists engaging in intimate relationships for which they “dissolve” in a real-life situation. Second, empathy-driven news work succors performers and audiences with a sense of hope for recovery and healing, drawn from communal experiences, and advancing journalism’s “emotional turn” with a compassionate orientation. Third, journalistic theater’s physicality extends news work with the stage as a platform and warrants a perspective of embodied journalism, spotlighting the human body as a medium.

Auteur(s)

Stijn Postema

Publicatietype

Artikel

Pagina (start)

363

Pagina (einde)

383

Trefwoorden

Artistic journalism, Theater, Conflict reporting, Performance, Human body, Community work, Emotion, Embodiment, Live journalism

Taal

Engels

Gepubliceerd in

International Journal of Communication

Gepubliceerd op datum

2024-01