Dining out as a performative event

John Pløger

Urban Research & Practice, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 94-111

Abstract: Public events are scripted, staged and choreographed. Dining out is a perception-affect experience, but it is rare that the experience becomes a performative event in which guests are actors in the scene. The Madeleine’s Food Theatre in Copenhagen created a performative dining-out experience where guests did not have knowledge of the script, stage or choreography beforehand. When people became part of making a space into an event, they entered into unimaginable atmospheres and moods. The article explores the dining experience at Madeleine’s Food Theatre as a collage of body-mind impressions affected by different kinds of forces of presence.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2020.1737726

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