Communication of Performing Art “Tanah” of Theatre CCL Bandung as Sociocultural Construction

Abstract

Contemporary theatre performing art is media of art communication deriving from the ideas of the artists to express phenomena existing in their sociocultural surroundings. This study is aimed at analizing and interpreting the expression of theatre performance which can be answers, expectation, criticism, and picture of the past, the present and the future life. The expression is communicated through the art of theatre either dramatically, kinesthetically, musicalistically, or visualistically by the performers who all at once construct their society related to the socioculture life experienced in their surrounding. The  method applied in this research is qualitative approach with interpretative spirit in phenomenology perspective. This method focuses on in-depth interview, participant observation, and self reflection through the experience of experiment work on Indonesian contemporary theatre performance. The result of the study shows that the theatre group of CCL Bandung supporting the problems of “land” offers a distinctive answer  and solution which are relatively different from their surroundings and the society in general. Furthermore, the cultural and social information in contemporary theatre performance can be knowledge, understanding, and a particular viewpoint in answering the sociocultural challenge in the present days

Keywords: Social Construction, Theatre Performance, Art Communication

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/2015-8-7