21.03.22 Analysing Performance - Intention
This document provides guidance on analyzing a performance work from a postmodern perspective. It instructs the reader to introduce the chosen practitioner, discuss any key influences on their work from both a cultural and personal level, identify the practitioner's intentions for the work, and draw parallels between those intentions and cultural influences. The document emphasizes analyzing how the work aligns with postmodern themes and styles, rather than focusing on whether the practitioner intentionally made the work postmodern. It provides prompts for elements to discuss such as the practitioner's background, influences, stated intentions, and how their ideas relate to postmodern concepts. The overall aim is to help the reader effectively argue how a work can be considered postmodern.
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21.03.22 Analysing Performance - Intention
- 2. 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 themes and/or characteristics Week 8 Analysing Performance
- 4. Interpretation? For the present purpose intention is defined at a fundamental level as a consciousness towards, through which we open ourselves through perception to the world, to others and to ourselves. This definition goes beyond the commonly understood meaning of the word as something ‘wanted’ to be said, done, communicated, etc. (Preston-Dunlop, V. & Sanchez-Colberg, A. 2002, p. 16) Week 8 Analysing Performance
- 5. Your argument [Insert name of work here] can be considered postmodern. Analysing Performance Week 8
- 6. So, what do you need to do to support this argument? Analysing Performance Week 8 Introduce us to the choreographer/playwright Articulate any key influences either cultural or personal (postmodern?) Identify any choreographic/directorial intentions Draw any parallels between their performance making intentions and their cultural influences
- 7. No – your choreographer/ playwright did not study postmodernism – they did not intentionally make their work postmodern. Instead, you are articulating how their work aligns with key postmodern themes and stylistics. How have they been inspired by the postmodern culture they are a part of. APPLICATION OF THEORY Analysing Performance Week 8
- 8. So, what do you need to do? One paragraph to introduce your practitioner What are they known for? Key biographical details – be selective Key influences – people and events Week 8 Analysing Performance
- 9. Intention • Key narrative/ thematic ideas • Key stylistic/ artistic ideas Point –What are your practitioners key choreographic/directorial intentions? • In an interview, X states… Evidence – Quotes from interviews / artistic statements • This is a key concern of postmodernism because… Explanation – How do these ideas relate to postmodernism? Analysing Performance Week 8
- 10. What information about the artist's training and background is important for my readers to know? Analysing Performance Week 8
- 11. What are the philosophies/ beliefs/ guiding principles which inform the choreographers work? Week 8 Analysing Performance
- 12. What did they intend to communicate? Week 8 Analysing Performance
- 13. What were the choreographers key ideas shaping their work? Week 8 Analysing Performance
- 14. To what extent do cultural influences on a choreographer/director and performer influence their artistic work? Week 8 Analysing Performance