- Think of something that causes a strong emotion in you such as anger, confusion or joy that most people don’t feel and figure out a way you could help an audience feel that way or at least understand better why you feel that way. Remember you are helping them emphasize you are not reporting something.
- Help an audience see things differently. You could do this by replacing the normal context of something with something ridiculous like the Dadaist or you could lean into it by exaggerating aspects of it through repetition or heightened emphasis.
- Create a ritual out of the ordinary. In a similar vein, another way to heighten the ordinary is through ritualization. Look at something you do every day, find out what makes it important to you or others and make it into a ritual. This can either be a form of commentary or celebration.
- Create connections through humor, vulnerability or both. One of the best ways to get people to listen to you is to offer them something first this could be through making yourself vulnerable to the audience in some way or by using humor to soften a message. If you do choose a variation on this please make sure you are prepared for the consequences assuming that the audience won’t or will do something because of social pressure may backfire on you so don’t be afraid to have other students be plants to help set the tone. If you do plan to do this please talk to me so I know what you’re doing and I can keep every one including you safe.
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Some possible ideas to create a performance piece
