This episode is perfect for anyone interested in audience engagement, the history of audience behavior, meaning making, theater, and interpretation of the arts.
IN THIS EPISODE
- Lynne describes her work as a cultural historian, playwright and professor.
- She talks about applying the history of the arts to the practice of the arts.
- She discusses the assertion that drives her scholarship.
- She defines the terms social interpretation, arts experience and arts talk.
- Lynne explains how audience behavior has changed over time.
- She provides two reasons why audience behavior has changed.
- She explains the consequence of quieted audiences.
- She describes how the arts experience should be more like sports.
- Lynne answers whether she would prefer active audiences during performances.
- She addresses Miles Davis turning his back on the audience.
- She explains the difference between linear and circular patterns of communication.
- She notes criticism of white and black audience behavior.
- Lynne addresses whether any work of art can be considered great if audiences are not actively interpreting art.
- She considers whether the decline in audience interpretation makes art less meaningful.
- She shares what arts organizations can do to help audiences make meaning.
- She answers what was defining about her childhood.
- Lynne explains why she is attracted to theater and how her scholarship evolved.
- She talks about what meaning means.
- She connects interpreting the arts to interpreting the meaning of our lives.