'Performance' (ethnographic context) Vocabulary: Or the Foundations of One
31-December-2006
permalink email thisAutoethnographic Theatre. The theatre edge routed in post-modern that is problematic for me as an outlook but even so here are some useful words to think about. Democractic performances and the idea of performances in public and democratic spaces. For autoethnographic theatre general view point is around safe sacred aesthetic places. Issues of people coming together to particpate in shared and reflexive performances. For me the idea of common ground for research and the democracy element is useful to consider..
Performances involve coparticipation in an interpretive process. Using the above theatre analogy scripts can be considered in context of pedagogic performance narratives. The idea of edited experiences and often from personal and group experiences. This may result in composite characters - this may be through stitching together many fabrics of culture and activities.
The routes of autoethnographic performance is an interpretive event. A way tp project meaning and understanding about situations and experiences (Pelias, 1999). The idea is the performativity (being) brings performance narrative alive. Clearly challenging to achieve but natural for a multicultural education approach driven by a pedagogy routed in anti-discriminatory practice.
A wide range of personal performance narratives are can be identified. A personal experience story is a narrative relating the self of the teller to personal experiences that have occurred and from the past (Denzin, 2001). A self story is a narrative takes a structure of experiences and creates a story that is based on past, present and future simultaneously. And this is a autobiographical discourse approach. Alexander (2000) calls this generative autobiographical performance. These three types often merge and support each other...
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