How theater reaches the publics which do not go to the theater. The role of Córdoba itinerant theater in the creation of new audiences

Abstract

In this paper, we propose addressing the issue of studying the experience of new audiences, diving into the conditions of performing arts reception. For this, we raise the following questions: How are the initiation experiences of performing arts for the new publics in Córdoba? What are the reception conditions and contexts? We will characterize Cordoba Itinerant Theater, taking it as the field where the game of the performing arts circulation towards the new publics takes place. As a methodological approach, we will use the Field Theory by Pierre Bourdieu to autotomize a field as an object of study. We will question its autonomy process and its bond with external spheres. We will try to recognize the interests that define its game, focusing especially on specificity of the dispositions and practices that differentiate the agents of this field from agents of similar or wider fields, as Cordoba independent theater. Finally, we will analyze its relation with the State, as the product of a historical construction linked to the consolidation of the democratic values and therefore of the democratization of access to art.