Clyde Fitch Report: All of us struggle today with determining the best response to the changing facts of life around us and in our field. In many conversations, we hear regret and pessimism rather than see the adoption of the technological and other changes we are experiencing. While holding on to the known past even as it disappears is natural, we would be more effective and successful in so many ways if we adopted a proactive, forward-looking stance instead. In order to do this, however, one would have to know in which direction to head. This is a tall order, given that nobody can really say where we will be or how artists will practice in five or 10 years.
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This article wasn’t what I expected from it’s title. It talked more about how we, as theater artists, should be trying to anticipate future societal issues in order to be more prepared to combat them in performance, and less about working with/ against the constant influx of new types of technology in the arts which can both enhance and degrade entertainment. I think that I agree with the overall message of the article; that it is a delicate balance between following our past culture while accounting for the changes of the present and preparing for what will change in the past. However, to be honest, I think this article was, overall, a bit too conceptual for me to fully wrap my head around. While I totally agree with making theater less centered around the privileged, and using art to incite social change, I don’t necessarily think that it’s our job to always be thinking about what is coming in the future. While art is always expected to be “ahead of the game”, I don’t think there is anything wrong with taking things as they come, and changing our practices as we see fit.
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