- Over the weekend, please read Ch 12 of Pelias/Shaffer, consider all of the evaluative tools and models, then view your partner's video and write an in-depth critique of your partner's performance. Around 500 words, please.
- Choose at least 3 out of the 5 views presented by Pelias and Shaffer on p. 185 for critiquing a performance.
- Include a balance of positive, critical and transformative feedback (ex of transformative: "This part of her performance was effective, but an approach to take it further would be to...")
- Write about both the content and the delivery of the performance
- Please write at least three sentences relating the piece you are critiquing to the final section of Ch. 12 "Evaluation and Ethics"
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Assignment for Tuesday 10.8 - Critical Feedback
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The performer that I had the chance to critique was Amanda. Out of the five ways that Performance Studies suggest you analyze a performance three jumped out of the page to me considering Amanda’s performance of Carly’s piece. The three evaluative tools that I choice to use are, performance as a textual study, performance as a commutative act, and finally performance as a cultural process. The book defines a textual study as, “a compelling method for examining their interest”. (185) This is exactly what Amanda transformed this piece into. Amanda choose to change all the second and third person into first. This forced this piece to become centered on the author. Amanda sees the first person talking to someone, and the author wants this person to be happy and find love. Looking through the lens of a textual study this makes sense because textual performance is all about being “real” and “believable” and this performance was both of those things.
ReplyDeleteNext I chose to analysis the performance using communicative act as my platform. Communication is just a broad term, there are thousands of way people can communicate with each other from vocal, to body language, to writing, the list will go on. However, in chapter 12 the book defines a communicative performance as, “a focus upon the interchange between performers and listeners. With the cut n mix assignment being as strange and hard to present as it was I thought that Amanda did a great job keeping the listeners focused and eager to hear what comes next. She did this in a few different ways. For starters she did not speed through the reading, she took her time and allowed the audience to comprehend what was said. She also stood up tall and took pride in her reading. However, it would have been nice if she had spoke a little louder and maybe tried sell the performance a little more. If she filled the room with her voice and put some emotion the result could have been even better.
Finally the cultural process. Unlike the Lees it was a bit harder to find a cultural process within this performance but that does not mean it is not there. I originally thought that when taking about cultural process there had to be a performer who is not use to the cultural that they are in. However, the book defines this process as, “to tell people who the are and what they believe in” (185). Both Carly and Amanda did this through out the performance. Carly showed how she wishes for people to find love, and Amanda tweaks this idea by changing parts of the piece that places focus on the author.
Amanda did a great job presenting it would have been nice for her to sell the performance a little more as well as being a little louder. Lastly, if she had some talking points about the piece the audience would have been more moved by the piece.