Stage Performance in the System of New Humanitarian Knowledge

The purpose of the article is to highlight the concept of the New Humanitarian Knowledge as a complex, multidiscipline and adaptive system. The research methodology provides analysis of the problem field of the postculture and identification of its little-studied gaps; it also defines performance as one of the most striking phenomena of the postculture; finally, it helps to establish motivations for studying the history and practice of stage performance in the context of the New Humanitarian Knowledge. The scientific novelty of the study is determined by significant changes in cultural and artistic life generated by the development of humanitarian knowledge as well as by expanding the informative and analytical field of the cultural initiatives and the introduction of digital technologies in the process of creating an artistic product. In this context, the relationship between aesthetic and artistic innovations in culture and the complexity of the system of artistic analysis and the variability of knowledge obtained in the professional education is also revealed. Conclusions. It was proved that the formation of the New Humanitarian Knowledge was one of the results of modernisation of the humanitarian, in particular, culturological sphere — the transition to a mobile, multiparadigmatic, methodologically multilevel model of knowledge that responds to the so-called “volatile” creative structures, with their ability to rapidly review certain realities and values, and create new practices. It’s indicated that nowadays the most relevant category of the New Humanitarian Knowledge is performance studies, focused on the analysis of manifestations of performativity. In their system of research coordinates, the performance turn became one of the starting points for the era of postculture. It was concluded that the history and practice of the stage performance, which since the end of the last century has become a full-fledged participant in a process of organising a complex, diverse, artistically heterogeneous theatrical system, constantly fosters interest in performative issues. In turn, the functionally and methodologically enriched New Humanitarian Knowledge supports the progress of performative analytics in the system of new theatre studies, related to the topical agenda of “new visual” and performance as its valuable part