Theater for Babies: a universal art for a universal baby?
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https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.145463Abstract
By addressing a specific audience, which hasn’t traditionally been considered a priority, the field of theater for babies opens up a new source of scenic poetics. This poetics is constructed by different artistic languages, exercising its freedom within the broad universe of performance theater (Ferál, 2008), in which the boundaries between theater and performance are constantly blurred, if not erased. What the theater for babies aesthetically intends is a new “for/with who” and an awakening of society’s perception of the abilities of babies. Therefore, the creative potential in this field of the performing arts comes from the broadening and deepening of the artists’ comprehension of this public. In this way, this paper aims to analyze the concepts of “universal baby” and “universal art”. The two “seemingly transparent concepts” (Gottlieb, 2012, p. 90) communicate with each other and can constitute a kind of mentality from which performing arts for babies are developed. In other words, the implicit understanding of a concept of universal baby, for whom an art, also understood as universal, is designed and produced.
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2025-08-30
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de Sant`Anna Ribeiro, C., & de Almeida Castro, R. de C. (2025). Theater for Babies: a universal art for a universal baby?. Revista Cena, 43(3). https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.145463
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