Formatting the assignment

1. Formatting the
Assignment
by Louise Douse
Week
13
Analysing
Performance

2. What?
Date Topic
10/05/21 Formatting the Assignment (and re-cap)
17/05/21 Tutorials
24/05/21 Tutorials
Essay due Friday 28th May @10am
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Analysing Performance

3. Formatting Guidelines
 Title page – you do not need to repeat any information from this in your
essay except the title at the beginning. Do not put your name on your
essay – anywhere!
 Do not use colloquialisms and slang
 Do not use lists and headings
 Don’t use abbreviations
 Do not use personal pronouns, ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘you’
 Do not use ‘and’ ‘but’ ‘yet’ at beginning of sentences
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4. Formatting Guidelines
 Write numbers in full e.g. one hundred (except dates: 1984)
 Always use someone’s surname
 The first time you mention someone write their full name and dob/d:
(1912-2001) (b. 1952)
 Quote and reference
 Indent long quotes (over 40 words)
 When writing about a performance work always write the title in italics.
 Give the date a performance was recorded/seen (if live) the first time you
mention it
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5. Bibliography
 Cite them write
 Alphabetical order
 Grammar is important
 Layout/presentation is important
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6. Re-cap
What? Essay
How long? 2,000 words including
quotations
When for? Friday 28 May, 10.00am
How important? 100% of the total
assessment of the unit
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Analysing Performance

7. The Essay
In what ways can your chosen practitioners work be
considered postmodern. You should discuss the
chosen work by paying particular attention to:
 The significant signs and key stylistic features of
the work
 The key postmodern concepts applied to the
performance
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8. Assessment Practitioners
Week 1
Analysing Performance
Dance and
Professional
Practice
Texts
DV8 Physical Theatre – The Cost of Living
Sidi Larbi Cherkoui – Sutra
Vincent Dance Theatre – Virgin Territory
Performing
Arts Texts
Pina Bausch – Orpheus and Eurydice
Acting Texts
Frantic Assembly – The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-Time
David Watson – The Man Who Almost Killed
Himself
William Shakespeare (Phyllida Lloyd) –
Julius Caesar
Stephen Berkoff - Decadence

9. Threshold Criteria
 Demonstrate a sufficient subject knowledge of key postmodern
characteristics within performance.
 Apply key methods of analysis to a performance text and express ideas in
your own words.
 Communicate ideas using an awareness of the conventions of grammar,
spelling and formatting, with a sense of structure. Have an awareness of
good academic practice.
 Undertake independent research in relation to the Postmodern
practitioners and practices presented in the lectures.
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10. What should your essay include?
 Contextual info on the practitioner/work
 Discussion of key methods of analysis
 Semiotics and 4 strands analysis
 Postmodernism
 Interpretation: What are the key postmodern themes of the
work?
 Impression: What are the key signs and stylistic features of
the work?
 Analysis: How do the signs support the theme?
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