Popular season: body, culture and city beyond the ticket office

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the use of the term “popular season” and the sense production in the context of cultural journalism. Methodologically, we start from an empirical phenomenon - the popular season of a show of Deborah Colker Dance Company - to build a socio-hermeneutic analysis and a discussion of the concept of popular culture based on available literature in sociology, anthropology and communication. To support the observation, we saw « Tatyana » in a popular season and gather journalistic documentary material about the piece.