Threshold Spaces and Body Experience: Reconfiguration of the Audience-Actor Relationship in Immersive Theatres

Abstract

In the context of the contemporary shift in theatre art towards immersive experiences, threshold spaces and body experience have shifted to become a key dimension for reconfiguring the audience-actor relationship. This paper, based on the threshold theory and body phenomenology as theoretical frameworks, analyzes how the spatial design and body participation in perception in immersive theatres break the traditional binary opposition of audience and actor, explores the transformation of the audience from passive viewers to active participants, and argues that immersive theatres create threshold-like space experiences, making the body experience of the audience an important component of artistic production, thereby reconfiguring the power structure and aesthetic mechanism of the audience-actor relationship. This research provides strong support for understanding the cross-media practice and body turn in contemporary theatre art, and has significant value in promoting interdisciplinary dialogue in theatre art research. Moreover, the specific implementation effects cannot be ignored.

https://doi.org/10.65281/905206