Performance Spaces
Jack Trice Stadium is an example of this type of performance space, in which the audience surrounds the action on all sides.
What is an arena?
Like a pug watching Homeward Bound, this feeling explains the human capacity to share another being's emotions and feelings.
What is empathy?
Picture this—the arch which frames the playing area gives this space its Greek-inspired name.
What is a proscenium?
Though they won't show up on the periodic table, these three elements are present in every dance.
What are time, space, and force/energy?
Infinite Flow is the first American dance company to feature these.
What are dancers in wheelchairs?
This flexible venue can mimic the characteristics of any other performance space.
What is a black box?
Don't believe everything you feel—these mistakes in reasoning, evaluating, or remembering are also known as "ECBs."
What are emotional-cognitive biases?
This Greek word for "dancing in a ring" shares its name with an on-campus dance troupe.
What is orchesis?
Along with artistic and recreational dance, this third function of dance hints at its evolution from ritual.
What is ceremonial dance?
The Maori people often perform this cultural dance, originally designed to intimidate their enemies on the battlefield.
What is the haka?
The name of this performance space, ideal for interactive performance, might also be at home in a calculation for a space shuttle launch.
What is thrust?
Mind the gap—this method of evaluation relies on the audience to distinguish between their conscious reality and the fictional reality presented in a performance.
What is aesthetic distance?
The name for a creator of a dance comes the combination of this Greek word, meaning "to dance," and graphia, meaning "to write."
What is choros?
An actor, a spectator, and a shared space are the three requirements for performance, according to this writer of "The Empty Space."
Who is Peter Brook?
All aboard! This type of movement is used by dancers to travel from one place to another.
What is locomotor?
A play that is set in an airport that is also performed in an airport would be known as either a found space, or this type of theatre.
What is site-specific?
Be sure to cover your mouth—this icky-sounding notion explains why you tend to laugh when other people are laughing.
What is social contagion theory?
Don't judge them—this group of ten Athenian citizens were drawn at random before a performance to evaluate a play's merits.
Who are the kritai?
DAILY DOUBLE
Name 3 of Cason's Five C's for appreciating performance.
This method of evaluating performance, focused on evoking change, lies at the opposite end of the spectrum from "entertainment."
What is efficacy?
The ball is in your court—this performance space evolved from venues where the French might play a round of jeu de paume.
What is a traverse?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined this term in 1817 to describe the phenomenon where an audience sacrifices realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.
What is the willing suspension of disbelief?
This circle of stones, where farmers hit wheat on the ground to separate it from the chaff, may be the location Greek performance began.
What is the threshing floor?
This aesthetic form is characterized by an emphasis on these three things: coolness, mass appeal, and inclusivity.
What is low art?
This modern dance practitioner utilized the notion of "contract and release" in her work.
Who is Martha Graham?