How do you offer a keyword attribute to the show you’ve nominated?
The two texts below (one has a website too!) will help you become familiar with performance descriptors and the scholars and practitioners who have popularized the terms. The website and text are listed first, below are the keywords that each text discusses.
Website: Intermsofperformance.site
Jackson, Shannon and Marincola, Paula eds. In Terms of Performance (a keywords anthology) . Produced by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2016.
In Terms of Performance Keywords:
Act Amateur Character Choreography Collecting Composition Curating Documentation Duration Ephemerality Experience Economy Improvisation Installation Live Media Narrative Participation Performativity Postdramatic Poststudio Prop Reenactment Relational Score Site Spectator Theatricality Virtuosity
Gabrielle Cody, & Meiling Cheng. (2015). Reading Contemporary Performance. London: Taylor and Francis.
Reading Contemporary Performance Keywords:
Time Archive Historiography Historicity Inscription Liminality Memory Narrative/narratology Reenactment Remains Reproduction Syncopation Trace Quotation Endurance art Section 2: Space Discipline Environmental Theater Found/artificial space Hypocritical/fake space Hierarchy Landscape Theater Mise en scene Paratheater Performative Photography Prison Culture Proxemics Scenography Site Specific Performance Surveillance Virtual Performance Section 3: Action Appropriation Art Choreography Collaboration Cybernetics Dance Event Experimental Music Hybridity Liveness Matrixed/non-matrixed Mediation Media Mimesis Mimicry New Genre Public Art Negative Mimesis Performatics Play Post-linearity Propaganda Repertoire Simulacra War Section 4: Performer Actor Affect Alterity Animalworks Camp Circus Devising Digital Performance Docudrama Double-coding Drag Embodiment Emotions Ethnic Drag Explicit Body performance Extreme Performance Gender Gestus Glossolalia Parody Pornograpy Obscenity Restored Behavior Rhetoric Roles Subject Position Section 5:Audience Communitas Emotional Contagion Empathy Frame/Framing Gaze Invisible Theater Prosthetic Performance (including Critical Subjectivity and Documentation) Reception Theory Spectator Part 2: Methodologies and Turning Points Introduction Animal Studies Anti-Art Auteur Theater Body Art Ecological Theater Epic Theater Feminisms Fluxus Globalization/Glocalization Happenings Identity Politics Identification/dis-identification Intercultural Performance Intermediality Marxism Minimalism Modernism Montage Multicentricity Performance Art/Live Art Performance Studies Phenomenology Postcolonial/Subaltern Studies Postmodernism Post-Porn Modernism Robotics and information Art Semiotics/semiology Terrorism and Performance/Theater of Cruelty Transnationalism Race Whiteness