Imagine, if you will, a powerful link - a link between cultural anthropology, sociology, drama, oral interpretation of literature, literary criticism, folklore, mythology, and psychology; - a link between the creative process of making art and the critical process of analysing performances, both those staged performances, such as plays in which a trained artist applies a skill, and community events, those ritual-like performances of everyday life; - a link between ‘performing’ our professional and social roles, telling a joke or a folktale, and staging community spectacles such as parades, circuses, sports, weddings, the Olympics, and public hangings, all of which follow a set order that combines the visual and the auditory and conveys meaning.
(Performance Studies: Living, Looking, Learning, 2004).
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