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Critique of Eleanore Dykes

Critics viewing performance as an artistic event

“As artist, performers must not only demonstrate a mastery of craft and technique, but also offer an artistic experience.”(p185) So, Eleanore use the material which Abby gives her to make her own poem. Because the thing she get from Abby has already been mixed up to something like a poem, so, she did not have many choice on words, she just try her best to keep the feeling Abby write and add some own words to make the poem more consistent and more make sense. However, because she does not have too much choice, so, the meaning between sentences is still not really making good connections. The story she tells us are not really complete.

Critics seeing performance as a communicative act

The concern of this part is “how performers and listeners make performance events meaningful” (p185). So, after I watched Eleanore’s performance, I found her voice is really emotional, and her speed of speaking really makes people comfortable. However, a biggest problem is, although she sometime rise her head up, but she did not make a really good eye contact. Because, she write a really short poem, so, she has a chance to memorize it and did a better job, this will not use her too much time. Also, although her poem gives us a really strong feeling, however, because she wants to keep the feeling that Abby gives us; her poem did not really make a perfect sense for the whole article. So, I think she can add more words of her own next time and gives out the feeling she wants to tell by her. Thus, it will become her own work and become more meaningful and believable.

Critics conceptualizing performance as a cultural process

“Performance, like other human achievements, tells people who they are and what they believe.”(p185) The poem that Eleanore wrote is really like a love story, it just like a girl who fall in love write to her boyfriend and tells him he means everything to her. I think she really did a good job on this part.

Critics, perceiving performance as textual study

This part “primarily concern themselves with the power of performance to explicate aesthetic texts”.(p185) In this poem always emphasize “you are her home”, and think the repeating of this is a kind of figure of speech. The sentences she wrote are really beautiful and give us a strong feeling of love. I think she really did a good job on writing a poem.

Overall performance and more suggestions of the future work

In conclusion, I think she really did a good job on this work, both the sentence she write and the feeling she gives us are really good. Also, she’s preforming really makes me feel comfortable. However, just like the problems I said before, try to add more words on it of your own and make it more meaningful. And next time, I also want to see you can make more eye contact and do not need to read.