A Study On The Cultural Value Of Outdoor Performances

The form of performing arts in Chinese and Western culture goes back toancient times, in a context of social progress and economic development, theatreperformance continue to mature. Open-air perform in the city Flourish with theencouragement from social and the populace. Open-air perform is an independentwatching form in the urban cultural performances. In recent years, Shanghai open-airperformance is developing rapidly with its interactivity and flexibility.The progress of tourist economy and performance space gives fresh impetus toa boom in Shanghai open-air performance. As the growth of performs’ scale,traditional theatre performance can’t cover all culture value of urban cultureperformance in Shanghai and the whole country. Our systematic study in open-airperformance is still not quite complete. It also has not clear positioning yet.The article focuses on the Shanghai open-air performance, with the scope ofopen-air performance in all kinds of public space. First, I combed through the relatedbasic theories of open-air performance on the basic of a large number of dataobtained from practice, new report and academic research. Deep analyzed andconclusions were made concerning Shanghai open-air performance current situation.In the third chapter, the author made an exhaustive analysis to the culture valueof open-air performance from the perspective of history, art, social urban space, etc.And on this basis, the fourth chapter concludes the shortcoming of the developmentin Shanghai open-air performance with survey and interview. last of all, the authorputs forward her own countermeasures.