Week 1
The article we had to read for week one, "What is
Performance?" really struck me. I had always envisioned theater and life
in two ways: performing, and not performing, as if they were two separate
entities. I had never thought that to actually live was to perform.
Even when thinking of living as
performing, I always imagined any sort of front being put on to be put on in
front of other people. I never considered people could actually perform to
themselves, with self-esteem so directly tied.
The article we had to read for week one, "What is
Performance?" really struck me. I had always envisioned theater and life
in two ways: performing, and not performing, as if they were two separate
entities. I had never thought that to actually live was to perform.
Even when thinking of living as
performing, I always imagined any sort of front being put on to be put on in
front of other people. I never considered people could actually perform to
themselves, with self-esteem so directly tied.
Another interesting aspect of this article I found was the idea
that a performance is just as much about how a person goes about performing as
it is about the audience perceiving that performance.
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