Security Nearness: Some Conclusions after the First Post-Confinement Live Stage Performances. the Spanish Experience of on Air 2020.

What have we learnt from live stage experiences during the period of Worldwide Pandemic, after lockdown? This presentation focuses on the case of ON AIR, staged in Madrid and Sevilla in 2020 as a revision of Orson Welles and Cole Porter’s music theater piece Arround the World In 80 Days. Presented as a free version on Jules Verne’s novel with new character and scenarios, the piece of Welles and Porter was premiered on 1946 as a celebration of relieve and peace after IIWW. As a free revision of Welles and Porter’ piece strongly linked to Pandemic social context and the new need of a "Security Nearness", the show ON AIR was live premiered in Madrid's National Concert Hall during the first weeks after confinement and underlined by critics, audience and performers as a deep experience of catharsis and wellbeing. The artistic and sociological research of worldwide stage experiences like this may be a very important tool for future times.