Larger Events and Contexts

1. Larger Events and Contexts • These events and contexts define the limits of a • performance. • Public performance operates within or as a part of • network of technical, economic, and social activities. • The expanded event nesting a performance is in a • positive feedback loop to the performance. • No performance is an island.

2. Cooldown • Cooldown is a bridge, an in-between phase, ushers people back to daily life. • It’s can also be a later analysis or a cooldown exercise. • Resume authority over their own time and body.Refilling.

3. Aftermath • Aftermath persists in critical responses, archives, and memories. • Reconstructing “what happened” (Titanic) • When things go wrong, managing the aftermath-or “spin control”-comes into play. • “Facts” gets absorbed into collective performed memory.

4. Rules, Proto-performance, and Public Performance • One cannot stage anything from a play to a public ceremony without rules. • The rules always leave plenty of room for individual prowess. • Avant-garde • Performance is also guided by a network of expectations and obligations.

5. The performance quadrilogue • Sourcers, producers, performers, partakers • Rectangle • Z-path • Interpret dramas working from the principle that a play cannot speak for itself. • Theatre of straight line • Auteur’s route

6. From performance montage to desktop theatre • A montage is a way of construcing new meanings from numerous disparate sources or bits. • Main action(still performed) • Thomas Richards • Jerzy Grotowski • Desktop theatre

7. Experimental in one Context,Ordinary in another • What is experimental in the performance is commonplace in sports, pop-music concerts, and religious services. • The participation is so total that it is difficult to distinguish performers from partakers. • Ex. trails