Contents of the 6th issue of Theater Arts in 2012
　　Ideal Model and Self-Presentation: On Some Problems in the Fundamental Contradiction of Artistic Performance and Performing Education
　　Sun Huizhu
　　Abstract: Different from traditional theatrical performance theories, this paper crosses the border of various performing arts and puts forward that the fundamental contradiction of artistic performance is the one between the ideal stage model and the performer's self-presentation. The author has taken this argument as the main line to examine the entire process of different kinds of arts, including training, rehearsal, and performance and has offered some suggestions to the performing education in China. It is suggested that modern dramas, films and TV works, with their emphasis on self-development, should attach more importance to the ideal model; while the skills of expressing the character's inner world should be reinforced in traditional operas, music and dance performances because they only pay attention to imitation.
　　Key words: Artistic Performance, Ideal Model, Self-Presentation, Transboundary Performance, Repetitive Imitation, “Liberation of Nature”, Interaction, Rehearsal
　　On Interpersonal Skills of Management Talents in the Performing Arts Industry
　　Xu Man
　　Abstract: The cultural industry in China will meet with a period of rapid development in the national “12th Five-Year Plan” project. It is predicted that the added value of the cultural industry will account for the 5% of the overall GDP in China and this industry will become one of the pillar industries of national economy. However, opportunities usually coexist with challenges. The performing arts industry, as a part of the cultural industry, is troubled by its extreme lack of compound management talents in the structural reform that promoted by the Ministry of Culture since 2010. Though art enterprises and art academies are stepping up in their training of management talents, the talents inside those enterprises continue draining. In light of Robert Katz' Management Skills Theory and the realities of performing arts, this paper not only investigates the relation between the interpersonal skills of management talents and the phenomenon of brain drains but also puts forward some notions and methods of the cultivation of interpersonal skills.
　　Key words: the Performing Arts Industry, Management Talents, Interpersonal Skills