Performance Evaluation

My second performance in this class is to focus on how to strengthen a performance by focusing on the juxtapositions of an ethnographic object. For my object, I have chosen an award that I won for storytelling. In my performance, the audience will be able to see not only the long hours and hard work that one must put into craft a performance that is supposed to look effortless. I will be constructing this performance with the aid of lights, sound, audience set-up, props, and costume. I will be looking closely at the history awards, then I will be examining my performance under three different theories, and analyzing how it fulfills a learning objective for this class in this paper.
Awards were created by man at a very early point in its history in order to reward people for showing his or her superior strengths to others. An early example of an award in society is in ancient Nasca society and their …show more content…
According to Bell 2008, one of the aspects of the alienation effect is to create arresting moments in which “language effects are used to interrupt and comment on the unfolding action” (pg. 203). In having the audience react negatively against my mistakes, this is an arresting moment for the audience. It will disrupt the flow of my verbal performance and make the audience feel strange for imposing on my moment (Bell, 2008, pg. 204). Professor of Theatre Arts, Beverly Mathis-Swanson (2015), once told me, “The audience is always on your side, always rooting for you to succeed”. This is a prime example as to the idea making the normal strange. People want to cheer a performer on and see them do well. However, according to Bell (2008) in making the audience not only react negatively against me but to be verbal about it, changes the known set-up of how an audience often works (pg. 204). My performance will use the alienation effect and in doing so, will force the audience to be more