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Dynamic Performance Processes in Public Events

Explore the dynamic ways of generating, playing, evaluating, and remembering in larger performance contexts. Learn about the roles of sourcers, producers, performers, and partakers in public performances. Understand the aftermath, rules, and proto-performances involved. Engage with content from performance montages to desktop theatre, and delve into the theatrical expressions of iconic productions like CIVIL.warS and The Last Supper. Uncover the influence of renowned figures like Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and Edward Gordon Craig on theatre innovation. Preview materials on global and intercultural performance for a comprehensive view.

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Dynamic Performance Processes in Public Events

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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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