The Ritual Narrative of the Body in the Theatrical Performances Jan Fabre"Mount Olympus show as a sample play."

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Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
37-52

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The research was concerned with studying) The Ritual Narrative of the Body in the theatrical performances of Jan Fabre (Mount Olympus show " as a sample play ") contained four chapters. The first chapter (the methodological framework) dealt with the research problem, which was defined by the following question: What is the ritual? How did her practices shape the body's narrative and create the visual image of Jean Faber's theatrical performances? The importance of the research and the need for it came in that it sheds light on the concept of ritual as a cultural space that reveals the lifestyle and behaviour of societies to the extent of their ethnic, national, and religious differences and the extent of benefiting from it in the contemporary show industry. It attempts to reveal the aesthetic and performance principles in Jan Fabre theatre due to the intellectual depth and artistic brilliance of that director's proposals in the terrain of contemporary Belgian theatre, in addition to its theoretical aspect, which emerged as a result of extensive cognitive exercises and discoveries at the level of body and imageexplaining the extent of cultural and performance polarization from the ritual concept in shaping his theatre's physical narrative structures. It was necessary to benefit researchers interested in performance, laboratories, and theatre workshops in fine arts institutes, colleges, and private theatre institutions. The research aims to identify the concept of ritual, reveal its formation structures, elements and forms, and relay its properties as a path for analysis through its works in creating the body text and the visual image for the performances of the Belgian director (Jean Faber), and then the temporal and spatial limits of the research that were set in the year (2018 AD). In (Belgium), he unified the topic of) The Ritual Narrative of the Body in the theatrical performances by Jan Fabre (Mount Olympus show " as a sample play "), and the chapter concluded by defining and defining terms. The second chapter (theoretical framework) included two sections. The first dealt with (the ritual, the primary law of the body's organic performance) by studying the concept of the ritual, its properties, and its verbal, kinetic, and decorative elements, and examining the opinions of essential anthropological theorists whom the ritual was an active material in their intellectual blogs. As for the second, it dealt with studying (the artistic aspect). And the aesthetic in the theatre of Jan Fabre), and the chapter concludes with the indicators resulting from the theoretical framework. The third chapter (the procedural framework) defined the research sample. The chapter also included the research methodology and the research tool. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the show (Mount Olympus) by director Jan Fabre, who chose it intentionally. The fourth chapter discusses the results.

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Maitham Gihad, T., & تمار. (2025). The Ritual Narrative of the Body in the Theatrical Performances Jan Fabre"Mount Olympus show as a sample play.". Fnon Al-Rafidayn Journal, 1(2), 37–52. Retrieved from https://rjps.uomosul.edu.iq/index.php/fnon/article/view/10235