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| Personal Name | Jumalon, Yohani C. |
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| Resource Title | Babaylans in the Digital Age: Immediacy and Intimacy in their Virtual Rituals |
| Date Issued | 13 August 2024 |
| Abstract | In the advent of the global health crisis caused by COVID-19, performance spaces are compromised. Virtual spaces are temporary alternatives for performances. Though the virtual stage has limitations, it has been considered the alternative and the new normal performance medium. However, immediacy and intimacy have become problematic in such as these compromise our common understanding of the relationship between performers and audiences in virtual performances. This undergraduate thesis interrogates this problem through the ritual performances of contemporary babaylans online. Generally, it asks the question: how babaylans preserve and continue their rituals in the virtual stage? Virtual ethnography is used in analyzing the aforementioned issues. Concerning the virtual method, two contemporary male babaylan practitioners are focused. The ethnography is intended to bring forth insights into the transition and preservation of performing rituals in an alternative space: the virtual stage. Using Philip Auslander’s argument on liveness or the mediatization of performance culture, it is argued that immediacy and intimacies between the performers (the babaylans) and the audiences (the clients) are still lingering in the ontological structure of the virtual performance despite the absence of the traditionally conceived live. |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts : Theatre and Performance Studies |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Babaylans; Philippines--Religious life and customs; Performing arts--Philippines; Virtual theater--Philippines |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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