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Street Artists in Europe
Hopking in ‘Mapping the Placeless Place: Pedestrian Performance in the Urban Spaces of Los
Angeles’ 284 . Street theatre caries its stage along as well.
In the post modern and globalized world the street theatre might best create, reflect and share the
new European identity and, at the same time can keep the national culture idioms and traditional
elements in it. The street theatre language, mode and practices, for centuries approved, have
ambitions to be all in one, the paramount art, the commonly understandable background culture,
creative attitude and education for the widest social spectrum with open and promising chances
for the European future. The “two Angels” are always present tightening the string between
creativity and criticism. That’s why the street theatre remains dynamic and can initiate, shape
and heal new community, social, national and political conflicts and European processes. Street
arts help to create, maintain and participate in the European citizenship and this heritage is rich,
diverse and need to be valorized and protected. That is why it should be supported in the interest
of each individual, each family, community, institutions, each EU country and the European
Union as the whole.
284 Hopkins, D.J., Mapping the Placeless Place: Pedestrian Performance in the Urban Spaces of Los Angeles,
Modern Drama, Summer 2003, Vol. 46, Issue 2, p. 261-284.
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