Why we’re doing this:
— To explore how your ideas about performance and your work as a performer can be made manifest and available for discussion
— To explore how you use the performances created by others and through processes of interpretation, refashioning, rehearsal, and performance make them your “own”
— To explore who or what “owns” the ideas, approaches, processes, and products of performance art (and art in general)
— To explore how we judge what constitutes a successful, competent, and/or engaging performance

STEPS (see schedule for exact dates):
1) Create your directions
2) Execute a performance based on another student’s directions
3) Write a reflection on the piece you performed

PROCESS:
Part 1: For Part 1, you will create a set of directions for a performance. These directions must be designed so that someone else can execute the project. Your directions must include no more than 10 steps and require a budget of no more than $10. Think carefully about the ideas, commitments, and processes that inform your idea of the performance and communicate them clearly (so that someone else can carry them out). Consider your directions—in thought, language, and communication—as performances in and of themselves and strive to make your work as complete and polished as possible. Your directions will be assigned to another student to carry out.

Part 2: In Part 2, you will create a 5-7-minute performance based on the directions you select/receive. Consider the ideas, process, and anticipated performance the directions impart and consider how you will implement these elements in a way that is both “true” to the directions and in keeping with your own interests, commitments, and sensibilities as a performer. We will see these performances on the session following your selection/receipt of the directions.

Part 3: Now you will reflect on your performance.
1) What is this work about? (This is the idea, theme, message, or concept for your piece. Think of this as the thesis statement for your work.)
2) Why do you want to do this work? (This is your explanation of the importance of the work and what it means to you)
3) How will you do this work? What is it made of or out of? (This is how you envision the performance happening—medium/a, actions, texts, audience/performer relationship, etc.)
4) What do you want this work to do or accomplish? (This is the outcome or experience you anticipate for the work)
5) How did this work utilize the elements and principles of 4D design?

GRADING CRITERIA:
– completion of the directions to be performed
– completion of the performance
– reflection on the piece you performed