What is performance 1
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This document defines performance and theatre, discussing key characteristics like actors, action, audience, and arena. It contrasts mediated performances seen through cameras with live performances, giving examples like a Yoruba ritual and Broadway musical. The document also presents Richard Schechner's continuum of live performance and discusses different functions of performance like entertaining, marking identity, and connecting to the sacred.
What is performance 1
- 1. Introduction to Theatre Me!
- 3. Defining Performance Performance = ACTION/DOING -But- There is a difference between doing and showing doing
- 6. How may performances differ? Objectives Organization Consciousness
- 7. Differences between mediated and live performances $$$ Camera Focus Actors Ephemerality Audience
- 8. Live Performances Vary WIDELY e.g. Yoruba Ritual Yoruba Ritual Archive http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/yra/ Click on Next at the bottom of the first two pages, then click on the image in the middle of the top row for a video of Yemoja.
- 9. The Wedding Singer Broadway Production 2005 Tony Awards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLORqtel1Kw
- 10. Yoruba Ritual vs. The Wedding Singer
- 11. Richard Schechners Continuum of Live Performance play games sports pop perf. daily life ritual ent. arts
- 12. Activity Identify a ritual in your life and break the ritual down into the characteristics of performance (actor, action, audience, arena, arrangement).
- 13. Functions of Performance A. entertain B. make something that is beautiful (aesthetics) C. mark or change identity D. make or foster community E. heal F. teach G. connect with the sacred