10.05.21 Analysing Performance - Formatting the assignment
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This document provides guidance for writing an essay analyzing a performance work from a postmodern perspective. Students must write a 2,000-word essay discussing how one of the listed practitioner's works can be considered postmodern. They should pay attention to the significant signs and stylistic features of the work, and how key postmodern concepts are applied. The essay is due on May 28 and is worth 100% of the unit's total assessment. Formatting guidelines are provided, including using in-text citations and following bibliographic conventions.
10.05.21 Analysing Performance - Formatting the assignment
- 1. Formatting the Assignment by Louise Douse Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 2. What? Date Topic 10/05/21 Formatting the Assignment (and re-cap) 17/05/21 Tutorials 24/05/21 Tutorials Essay due Friday 28th May @10am Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 3. Formatting Guidelines Title page – you do not need to repeat any information from this in your essay except the title at the beginning. Do not put your name on your essay – anywhere! Do not use colloquialisms and slang Do not use lists and headings Don’t use abbreviations Do not use personal pronouns, ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘you’ Do not use ‘and’ ‘but’ ‘yet’ at beginning of sentences Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 4. Formatting Guidelines Write numbers in full e.g. one hundred (except dates: 1984) Always use someone’s surname The first time you mention someone write their full name and dob/d: (1912-2001) (b. 1952) Quote and reference Indent long quotes (over 40 words) When writing about a performance work always write the title in italics. Give the date a performance was recorded/seen (if live) the first time you mention it Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 5. Bibliography Cite them write Alphabetical order Grammar is important Layout/presentation is important Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 6. Re-cap What? Essay How long? 2,000 words including quotations When for? Friday 28 May, 10.00am How important? 100% of the total assessment of the unit Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 7. The Essay In what ways can your chosen practitioners work be considered postmodern. You should discuss the chosen work by paying particular attention to: The significant signs and key stylistic features of the work The key postmodern concepts applied to the performance Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 8. Assessment Practitioners Week 1 Analysing Performance Dance and Professional Practice Texts DV8 Physical Theatre – The Cost of Living Sidi Larbi Cherkoui – Sutra Vincent Dance Theatre – Virgin Territory Performing Arts Texts Pina Bausch – Orpheus and Eurydice Acting Texts Frantic Assembly – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time David Watson – The Man Who Almost Killed Himself William Shakespeare (Phyllida Lloyd) – Julius Caesar Stephen Berkoff - Decadence
- 9. Threshold Criteria Demonstrate a sufficient subject knowledge of key postmodern characteristics within performance. Apply key methods of analysis to a performance text and express ideas in your own words. Communicate ideas using an awareness of the conventions of grammar, spelling and formatting, with a sense of structure. Have an awareness of good academic practice. Undertake independent research in relation to the Postmodern practitioners and practices presented in the lectures. Week 13 Analysing Performance
- 10. What should your essay include? Contextual info on the practitioner/work Discussion of key methods of analysis Semiotics and 4 strands analysis Postmodernism Interpretation: What are the key postmodern themes of the work? Impression: What are the key signs and stylistic features of the work? Analysis: How do the signs support the theme? Week 13 Analysing Performance