Where is the performance in Joseph Roach's "Culture and Performance"?
I’d like to ask for some help, both in sorting out an essay, and in answering the question, “What is performance theory for?” I’ve been struggling with Joseph Roach’s essay in Performativity and Performance . At first reading, it seemed to be a clear tracing of three funeral performances as examples of social memory. Stepping back from it, though, I feel like it wanders over lots of territory, and I’m having difficulty finding the main point he is arguing. I believe one of his main theses is that literature and orature are interrelated, “that these modes of communication have produced one another interactively over time” (45). Another thesis is that performance allows culture to change. I don’t see how these arguments are supported with the analysis of different funeral performances, though. The literature he refers to is the libretto of an opera (an obvious aesthetic performance form) or a newspaper. How is performance related to what has traditionally been considered literatu...
-Perform or nothing else is disregarded as an overarching theme in context of choreography
ReplyDelete-dance and performance are live art disciplines and provide space to explore resistance as experimental performance
-five singularities: thingness, darkness, animality, persistence, and solidity
-Human as an animal that is not quite an animal, forever stirring to find its lost (natural) grace--through endless efforts of discipline <<<< I do not understand this quote too much and hope to find something clarity in the discussion
-Dance, as a discipline, has fully participated in the drive to announce Man to himself.
-performance broadly refers to performances of the self
-Why does dance hold such possibility for transformative performances of self and reality?
laura