Row X blog by Hannah Grannemann I wish I had known the term “audiencing”[1] during my arts management career. Fumbling with my words in meetings, I tried to get others to see audiences as more than ATMs, obstacles to work around, or sleepy citizens in need of moral awakening. Joining a noisy, packed lobby, I also couldn’t find words to describe the buzzy post-show feeling of elation on opening night after having been present when performers and audience had become enmeshed, creating a new … [Read more...] about “Audiencing”: Introducing the Routledge Companion to Audiences and Performing Arts
Introduction
Too Little Heterogeneity?: Histories, Theories and Questions of Social Justice
Row X blog guest post by Lynne Conner, Chair and Professor at the Department of Theatre at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. This is the first in a series on Row X featuring short essays written by the co-editors of the Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts, a major reference work published in April 2022. The series is introduced here.The Companion represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance. … [Read more...] about Too Little Heterogeneity?: Histories, Theories and Questions of Social Justice
Your Seat is in Row X
I’m thrilled to be starting this blog about the arts audience experience, Row X. I want to thank Lynne Conner who first gave me space to write about arts audiences during the pandemic as a guest editor on her ArtsJournal blog We the Audience in 2020. It was incredibly generous of her. And thank you to Doug McLennan for blessing the guest editorship of Lynne’s blog and later inviting me to have my own space on ArtsJournal. My professional bio and my scope for the blog are on the right of this … [Read more...] about Your Seat is in Row X