Multimedia Performance Reconstruction as a Challenge to Theatre History Writing Using Interactive Models of Historical Theatre Performances in the Education of Performing Arts

摘要

Based on my digital reconstructions of two historical performances from Hungary, I am trying to investigate how these could form the basis of designing e-learning content for performing arts students, both for course room and self-study use. The reconstructions use rich audio-visual resources, arranged along a multi-dimensional mind-map, to facilitate understanding and to support further analysis. By presenting some earlier and contemporary attempts of performance reconstruction from Hungary I investigate how these could bring new approaches to theatre history writing. By looking at the relationship of narrative and image, I argue that a radically new approach is needed in how multimedia content is presented, if we wish digital tools to offer new experiences and alternative reading strategies of theatre history. I present several ways of using these materials for pedagogical aims, as different walkthroughs of the same mind map. What are the specific tools and steps that could bridge e-learning tools and live courseroom interaction? How could the presentation of bygone theatrical events give room to creativity and activate personal opinions and insights? Finally, 1 present a few very specific task types which can be implemented by teachers in these models, to raise and keep the interest of students of the visual generation in the performing arts of their parents' times.