1 - The Nature of Performance Flashcards
1
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Types of performance studies
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- joint action
- performance science (focused on the individual)
- performance studies (cultural)
2
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Perspectives on what social behaviour is
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- joint action
- performance
- improvisation
- dramaturgical
3
Q
Representation vs. representification
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- representation = internalizing, embodiment
- representificication = externalizing, making the representation public, exbodiment
4
Q
Overview of the arts
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- performance (coordination, kinesis) and narrative (representification, mimesis)
5
Q
Types of performance
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- live
- mediated
- constructed
6
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Level of audience participation
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- receiver
- respondent (cued responses)
- co-producer (call and response)
- producer (folk dancing)
7
Q
Gesamtkunstwerk
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- total work of art
- unification of the arts as applied to transcendent literary themes
8
Q
Performance forms and modalities
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- forms = theatre, cinema, musical theatre, pop concert, opera, music concert, dance, mime
- modalities = speaking, singing, instrumental, dance/mime
9
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Most and least synthetic artforms
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- least = theater, mime
- most = musical theater
