The Art and Occupation of Stage Design in Finnish Theatres: The Rise and Fall of a Professional Community...

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Laura Gröndahl

The Art and Occupation of Stage Design in Finnish Theatres

The Rise and Fall of a Professional Community

Laura Gröndahl

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Routledge
01 August 2024

Performance art; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Theatre Studies

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This study explores the formation, establishment, expansion, and disintegration of stage design as a modern profession and a recognized artform in Finnish theatres.

Drawing on oral or written recollections and thoughts of stage designers from different decades, the author asks how their artistic agencies, occupational identities, and theoretical self-understanding have been constituted. She analyses Finnish theatre history from new perspectives by shifting the focus from finished performances to largely unknown practices behind the scenes. This book examines the cultural institutions that have constituted the stage designers’ role and position, like the professional city theatre system, the craft union, and education. This research shows how modern and postmodern scenographic innovations have been assimilated to local contexts, and how material and cultural circumstances have reshaped the artistic practices. Without bypassing canonical trendsetters or hegemonic cultural mindsets, the focus is directed on the everyday grassroot level of stage design practices. Personal interviews with over 20 designers make visible an ample repertoire of unwritten knowledge stored in habitual ways of working and dealing creatively with the complex system of theatre making.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies with a focus on scenography.

By: Laura Gröndahl
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781032479941
ISBN 10: 1032479949
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laura Gröndahl is a University Lecturer at Tutke (Performing Arts Research Centre), Theatre Academy and a Vice Dean for research at the Theatre Academy of the University of Arts, Helsinki.