The American/German spelled hashtag #Theater is a goldmine. It's so many interesting things posted under it, but it's not very active. So I'll start using it, and hopefully we'll have a theatre/theater community here someday 🎭
@lilletale The #theater vs. #theatre spelling issue was particularly pronounced for me having attended a german/benedictine theatre school for undergrad and a british-leaning school in texas for grad school. As it goes, I prefer #theater
@RussSharek @lilletale but all the world's a...
@K_REY_C @RussSharek #stagestuff
Could also contain dance 💃
Agreed, though I believe the goal was to highlight theatrical works.
@RussSharek @K_REY_C It was. That's why it's hard. Theatrical stuff has 5 diifferent ways of spelling and if we call it something stage related dance is automatically included as well.
Don't get me wrong, I like dance, it's just not my craft.
@lilletale @RussSharek I've always been uncomfortable trying to define the separation. I've seen things marketed as "dance" that were better from a performative metric than a lot of theater, and there are those who consider clowning as lesser, but some of the best actors I've ever seen in "traditional" theater were clowns and acrobats. The only difference I've ever been convinced of is that in-person, live performance is fundamentally different.
Though some disagree: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/380381
@K_REY_C
One of my teachers described clown in a similar way to how obscenities get defined by our culture...we know it when we see it.
@RussSharek @lilletale I agree. Despite the stereotypical costuming, clowning is much more than a red nose―and can, in fact, happen without it and the other stereotypical/visual cues―in wonderful, wonderful ways.
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We could potentially solve the problem with the hashtag #makingstuffuponstage