Correspondences Between Reflection and Scenic Action

The present paper aims to highlight the connection between the scenic action and the necessity to reflect on it from the point of view of performing arts practitioners. By considering the act of improvisation as an act independent from the act of reflection, we observe an interdependence between them from the spectator’s point of view. At the same time, considering theory and practice inappropriately separated, we analyse how the two ways of knowing intertwine. We could say, in this regard, that theory is not the exclusive prerogative of theorists and practice of practitioners. Let us just consider the fact that the papers written in the field of performing arts are not exclusively written by theorists; works written by practitioners can be recorded as a testimony to their method of stage work. These should not be labeled as theoretical works, but if they were labeled as such, then clearly the theory is done by the practitioner. In conclusion, the rigid boundary drawn between theory and practice, action and reflection proves to be meaningless in reality.