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Performance Studies

Performance Studies. Week 13 Chapter 7-2 Performance Processes Iris Tuan. Main Ideas. Public performance Larger events and contexts Cooldown—Let it go Aftermath Rules, proto-performance, and public performance. The Performance Quadrilogue.

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Performance Studies

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  1. Performance Studies Week 13 Chapter 7-2 Performance Processes Iris Tuan

  2. Main Ideas • Public performance • Larger events and contexts • Cooldown—Let it go • Aftermath • Rules, proto-performance, and public performance

  3. The Performance Quadrilogue • The dynamic relationship among 4 categories of players: • 1. sourcers • 2. producers • 3. performers • 4. partakers • P. 215

  4. Contents • From performance montage to desktop theatre • Experimental in one context, ordinary in another • Conclusion: Performance processes are dynamic ways of generating, playing, evaluating, repeating, and remembering. • Sequence of training, workshops, rehearsals, warm-up, performing, performance contexts, cooldown, critical response, archives, and memories. (p. 224)

  5. Iris Tuan’s photo with Robert Wilson • Robert Wilson’s talk at National Theater in Taiwan • Translated by Stan Lai

  6. CIVIL warS • Watch Robert Wilson’s production • CIVIL warS (1-5)

  7. Discussion • Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper • Conceived as a theatrical performance • Implied in the gestures of the personages • Expressed through spatial arrangement • Controlled by sources of light • Frontal, lateral and background • Fusing together in the dynamics of the narration (Pedretti, 42) • Judas—portrayed with the intense gesture of one who draws back in guilt (Pedretti, 46)

  8. Homework • Recording homework: • “Some “auteur” producers-sourcers, Robert Wilson and Richard Foreman, . . .and director Edward Gordon Craig dreamed of for the theatre” (P. 217) • Preview film: Ariane Mnouchkine’s 1789 Wole Soyinka • Preview materials: Chapter 8-1 • Global and Intercultural Performance

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