Towards a Model of Digital Narration of the Creative Process of Performance

Abstract

The achievements in the growing domain of the digital humanities greatly facilitate the documentation and processing of archival material, through the elaboration of models for databases and search tools. Due to the great variety of creative processes involved in the performing arts, genetic research must possess the necessary means for the documentation, collection and management of an enormous amount of information, produced during all the stages of creation, from initial conception up to completion on stage. This article presents the main hypotheses of the newly launched research project ‘Genesis: Genetic Research and Digital Visualisation in the Performing Arts’, which aims to conduct research in the genetic
studies of the performing arts, and more specifically to develop and apply a model of digital narration of the creative process. The project is based on the rich and complex work of two internationally acclaimed stage directors, Romeo Castellucci and Dimitris Papaioannou.