I have always found performance as a research quite fascinating. I never thought a performance was anything other than entertainment until I took a performance as a practice course. Knowing that every performance has an underlining reason behind it makes critiquing it more exciting. If I wanted to study some aspect of deception, I would pose the question "How does deception in the musical Sweeney Todd advance the characters' relationship with one another?" I love the musical, and if anyone has ever seen it, the whole play is about deceptions of the character to obtain their goals, all of which are different.
Of course, judging by the question, I would choose the performance research method. This method would be the best, in my opinion, because I am framing a research question around the performance of the characters within the play. Since it is a performance, I would also be critiquing the characters choice within the play about the forms of deception and adding depth to the meaning of the play as well as the specific characters involved.
Hello Miss B,
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed this post about performance research. I also didn’t realize how meaningful a performance could be outside of the entertainment it provides. The underlying meanings within performances, as in poetry and stories, help to express the purpose that the author wrote the film. Observing these sorts of things can be very difficult but are always worth it when the purpose is revealed. In addition, from your research question about deception, I would also choose the performance research to obtain this answer. This form of research would give you the best chance in obtaining the answer seeing that it’s a form of performance in itself. Observing entertainment is always fun.
Good Job,
-g23