Children’s Festival As A Performative Phenomenon

Abstract

The children’s festival has been studied as a performative phenomenon that actualizes the problem of presence (H. U. Humbrecht) as the highest anthropomorphic value, where imperceptible connections, different from the usual physical presence, are established between the participants. The children’s festival is analyzed in the projection of the bodily-material mode, touches, the exchange of which is already embedded in the nature of the performance, which allow the child to find himself in the mode of sensual, aesthetic experiences. The research methodology was based on post-non-classical, cultural, interdisciplinary approaches. The involvement of a cultural approach to the problem of analyzing a children’s festival as a performative phenomenon is productive in several aspects: first, the possibility of considering it in the projection of the concept of presence, where imperceptible connections are established between participants that differ from mere physical presence; secondly, the actualization of the corporeal-material perspective, the body, touches, the exchange of which is already embedded in the very nature of the performance, which allow the child to find himself in the mode of sensual, aesthetic experiences. Thirdly, the children’s festival involves consideration of performance culture, where play, celebration, and performance are closely intertwined. Accordingly, children’s performance, along with professional specialized training, does not exclude game communication, with the help of which it appears as a kind of “theatre for oneself” and contributes to the author’s creation of oneself. It was found that the children’s festival becomes an experimental platform for creative interactions between participants, live interaction with each other. The value of such interactions is that during the performance, the direct interaction of the participants of the children’s festival turns out to be much more productive than the possible meanings, meanings and presence-oriented effects.