Reading Question 8 (pg 111- 114)

Question 1

The Message in Performance:

Answer 1

Referred to as the “text” that can be used to describe a written work such as a poem, short story, or novel. and Actual live performance production. Non traditional forms of texts include oral texts, action texts, and visual texts. used primarily for structuring this discussion.

Question 2

The Message in Performance:

Oral Texts

Answer 2

Storytelling, Personal narrative. Family story telling. Past experiences shared reveal or lay bare our personal beliefs and value systems, enabling us to form a common bond with the audience who may share and identify with the story. Clearer persuasion.

Question 3

The Message in Performance:

Action Texts

Answer 3

Frequently in the area of cultural performance. Ritual and festival are two types of cultural performance with which you are probably most familiar. Action because both require activity, or a combination of people to perform in order to exist. the text is created via actions of the participants. The audience is a necessary and functioning part of the performance. Without it rituals cannot take place.

Question 4

The Message in Performance:

Visual Texts

Answer 4

Attract attention and stir the emotions of the audience. Two that rely on visual elements are intertextual performance and avant grade performance: Intertextual is interplay of texts; can be accomplished by referencing one or more secondary texts within the primary text. Like my movie.
Avant grade - elements of the body such as voice, gesture, and movement, to tun their bodies into works of art. Body art. ex: living sculptures where performers position themselves on street corners or other public areas. Mime, street performers stir emotions by defamiliarizing the familiar. Cumb to brush teeth wtf?