Toward an aesthetics of natural performance
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Text and Performance Quarterly
- Vol. 13 (2) , 168-180
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10462939309366041
Abstract
The recent utilization in performance of texts which arise from everyday activities, such as naturally‐occurring conversation, shares a tradition with performance studies/oral interpretation practice while suggesting a new aesthetics of natural performance. This study describes performance practices which involve the re/performance of ordinary interaction. A model of natural performance situates its aesthetics on the intersection of two continua: one which describes the level of detail available from everyday life events, and one which describes performance choices in relation to everyday life events.Keywords
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