Thèse de doctorat en Théâtre
Sous la direction de André Veinstein.
Soutenue en 1987
à Paris 8 .
Quand on utilise un espace theatral, quelle communication veut-on etablir? comment les differents elements du lieu influent-ils sur celle-ci? ces questions conduisent vers le scenographe (et plus globalement vers le technicien de theatre). Definir sa place dans la creation theatrale, son statut, bref son role, c'est l'angle d'attaque choisi pour repondre aux precedentes questions. Ces analyses sont menees essentiellement a partir de descriptions precises comme, au niveau des lieux, celle de la grande halle de la villette, ou celles de differentes mises en scene. Manipulateur d'objets (les objets qui occupent la scene), le scenographe contribue a elaborer le langage de la scene, a en rendre dechiffrable les elements. Manipulateur d'espace, il conduit a prendre conscience du fait que les conditions de la communication comptent autant que la communication elle-meme. A la fois decorateur, ingenieur et, de plus en plus souvent architecte, il se situe a la frontiere du monde technique et du monde de l'art. Il incite ainsi a se poser conjointement le probleme de leurs rapports, et celui de leur valeur puisque c'est la une des questions-cles du phenomene artistique. Constatant alors qu'on ne peut se contenter d'une approche purement geometrique de l'espace, on est conduit a la notion d'espace symbolique.
What communication is intended when a stage-space? how do the various elements of the place affect it? these questions lead to the scenographer (and in a word to the stage technician). Defining his place in the stage creation, his status, in a word his part, is the chosen starting point to answer the previous questions. These analyses are mainly conducted from precise descriptions like, as far as places are concerned, that of the main hall of la villette or those of different stage-productions. A handler of things (the stage filling things) the scenographer helps to work out the stage language, enables to make out its elements. A handler of space he leads to the awareness of the fact that the conditions of communication matter as much as communication itself. Being at once a stage designer, an engineer, and more and more often an architect he stands on the boundary between the world of technique and world of art. And so doing, he prompts to set jointly the problem of their relationships and that of their value since this is one of the key-questions of the artistic phenomenon. Finding out then that a purely geometrical approach to space cannot be contenting one is led to the notion of