Prompts for Tomorrow's Class

A few things about this week's reading:

• The Youngblood reading, you may notice, can get a little intense with obscure references. Don't worry about these references, but if something piques your interest feel free to look it up!
• Please take note of any questions you have on the reading, as we will be breaking into groups and each group will be responsible for posing at least one question to the class on the reading.
• Additionally, each of these groups will be responsible for presenting a response to one of the following prompts (I will assign these prompts in class tomorrow):
1. Why do we study performance theory? Why does it matter?
2. What do Pelias and Shaffer mean when they say all performances are dramatic?
3. What defines aesthetic text?
4. What limits does the book place on performances that will be considered and how can we rethink those limits on: relationships between performers? The number of performers? The medium/media? The setting?
5. What do Pelias and Shaffer mean by defining performance as a transactional process? Who/what are the different agents that participate in this transaction?
6. Why does Salter say technology is integral to the history of performance?
7. Why does Salter say performance is integral to the history of technology?
8. How does Salter define performance?  
9. How does Youngblood define ecology, and how does this definition relate to performance?

Please keep these questions in mind as you go over your reading. See you tomorrow!