1. Performance Studies Week 13 Chapter 7-2 Performance Processes Iris Tuan

2. Main Ideas  Public performance  Larger events and contexts  Cooldown—Let it go  Aftermath  Rules, proto-performance, and public performance

3. The Performance Quadrilogue  The dynamic relationship among 4 categories of players:  1. sourcers  2. producers  3. performers  4. partakers  P. 215

4. Contents  From performance montage to desktop theatre  Experimental in one context, ordinary in another  Conclusion: Performance processes are dynamic ways of generating, playing, evaluating, repeating, and remembering.  Sequence of training, workshops, rehearsals, warm-up, performing, performance contexts, cooldown, critical response, archives, and memories. (p. 224)

5. Iris Tuan’s photo with Robert Wilson  Robert Wilson’s talk at National Theater in Taiwan  Translated by Stan Lai

7. CIVIL warS  Watch Robert Wilson’s production  CIVIL warS (1-5)

8. Discussion  Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper  Conceived as a theatrical performance  Implied in the gestures of the personages  Expressed through spatial arrangement  Controlled by sources of light  Frontal, lateral and background  Fusing together in the dynamics of the narration (Pedretti, 42)  Judas—portrayed with the intense gesture of one who draws back in guilt (Pedretti, 46)

9. Homework  Recording homework:  “Some “auteur” producers-sourcers, Robert Wilson and Richard Foreman,...and director Edward Gordon Craig dreamed of for the theatre” (P. 217)  Preview film: Ariane Mnouchkine’s 1789 Wole Soyinka  Preview materials: Chapter 8-1  Global and Intercultural Performance