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Practicing a New Hospitality: The Interdependence of Partnership and Play in Theatrical Meaning-Making

Miller, Kristina K
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6585-2544
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563489789729287

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Theatre.
This dissertation considers how we engage with fellow human beings and how the common human practice of hospitality impacts those relationships, specifically the relationship between spectator and performer in theatrical performance. Hospitality has been the topic of scholarly consideration in several disciplines, ranging from philosophy to the hospitality industry. It has also been peripherally addressed in theatre practice through the proliferation of audience engagement strategies. Beginning from a sociological and theoretical understanding of hospitality, this project deepens the interplay between hospitality and performance. Its Practice-as-Research framework uses a theatrical performance experiment to address the question: How might one create hospitable content and circumstances that encourage the co-creation of meaning? I have embedded hospitality throughout the development, rehearsal, and performance. Data collection from this experiment has involved surveys, interviews, autoethnography, and retrospectives analyzing the procedures and impacts of the process and production of my performance experiment, a new work entitled Four People. Analysis of my results yields a new hospitality, the component parts of which are partnership and play. I argue that hospitality is the means by which we connect to other people and therefore, the best means to connect spectators and performers. Considering human interaction in this way, the framework of hospitality I am advocating can influence all modes of human engagement, from the classroom to the conference room to the political rally. The effective and affective use of hospitality I have developed will generate greater forms of human connection and contribute to a more empathetic society.
Jennifer Schlueter, PhD (Advisor)
Richardson Jack, PhD (Committee Member)
Zuniga-Shaw Norah, MFA (Committee Member)
Bergelson Vitaly, PhD (Committee Member)
412 p.
Performing Arts; Social Research; Theater; Theater Studies
theatre; hospitality; play; care; spectator; engagement; audience engagement; audience; practice as research; practice-based research

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  • Miller, K. K. (2019). Practicing a New Hospitality: The Interdependence of Partnership and Play in Theatrical Meaning-Making [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563489789729287

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miller, Kristina. Practicing a New Hospitality: The Interdependence of Partnership and Play in Theatrical Meaning-Making. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563489789729287.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miller, Kristina. "Practicing a New Hospitality: The Interdependence of Partnership and Play in Theatrical Meaning-Making." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563489789729287

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