Performing arts and public space: the city as a stage

Baca M.C.M. · Desde el Sur (2023) · DOI: 10.21142/des-1504-2023-0055

Resumen

At a time when the role of the arts in public spaces has been debated, we analyze, based on three scenic experiences that take place at a specific moment in the pandemic, the link with the city, a city «imagined» and «ap-propriate» that is reconfigured as a space for meeting and accessing culture. During 2021, two performing seasons: «We are free» and «Venzando al diablo» were presented in two parks in different areas of the city such as Miraflores and the Santa Beatriz Urbanization in Cercado de Lima. The third experience involved various interventions taking the Rimac River as a starting point as a large fissure between the Rimac district and the Historic Centre of Lima.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas