Cultural Arts and Performance Arts Essay

Directions and Form for Response to Cultural or Visual Performing Art Event

ONLINE CLASS

Assignment: For your responses to a cultural or visual performing event, you must first study the notes on critical thinking in Unit 1. Two types of responses, Dionysian and Apollonian, are explained there, and you will use those two viewpoints to base your response on.

TIME FRAME FOR THE EVENTS: You YOURSELF (not somebody you know) must have seen or attended the event WITHIN THE CURRENT SEMESTER.

· Response: The Personal Reflection (Dionysian response) is your gut reaction, if you will, to the event, museum, concert, play, or presentation. Did you immediately like it? Why or why not? Describe as best you can your emotional state as you were there: Did it make you happy, sad, or confused? Why did it make you feel that way? An example of this concept would be if you were to visit the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. At first, it may make you very sad that so many soldiers died, but then it make you appreciate that your father, grandfather, uncle, or another loved one survived and make it back home. Another example is if you were to visit an art museum with a collection of abstract art. It may make you confused about just what art is and may even disturb you a bit (some art intentionally tries to disturb the viewer’s comfort zone).

· Response: The Analytical (Apollonian) response is the measured, calculated, logical, technical response. An Apollonian response to the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial would be to give a brief physical description (be sure not to copy and paste directly from the Internet without citations, but if you do use that information, cite it), what the sculptor was trying to say with the harsh, clean lines and seemingly endless lists of names, not in columns, but in straight-line text. How is the structure positioned in its surroundings? What is it close to that would affect how a viewer may perceive it? If you went to a museum, what was the setting like? Were the displays positioned life-like or interestingly or did they look fake? If it was a concert, what was the venue appropriate to the performance? Was the staging and lighting effective? REALLY analyze what you saw.

Requirements: The form to complete is on the next page. You MUST:

1. Download this form and use it to complete your assignment. Complete the information in the textboxes on the next page, follow all the directions on the form, add a page to paste a picture of your ticket or brochure, then save it. You can save the file as either a Word document or PDF file; Blackboard takes either one.

2. Make sure to attach a scanned brochure, ticket stub, program, or something similar (a phone photo will be fine). I will not accept it otherwise. You can take a picture of the ticket stub or brochure or whatever proof you are using and attach it as a third page to this document.

3. Upload your assignment to Turnitin in Blackboard. I will NOT open Turnitin after the due date. So do NOT forget.

Hope this helps with the assignment. Remember, if you have ANY questions, ALWAYS ask first before plunging into unchartered waters.

HUMA Performance Art Cultural Event
Assignment ( possible 80 pts)
Used this Response to Cultural/Perfor. Arts form (the form itself or a typed version of it)	10
Event was on list of approved events -- OR – approved by instructor	10
What was seen, when seen, etc.	10
Dionysian response clear and thoughtful. Filled textbox with good information.	20
Apollonian response clear and analytical. Filled textbox with good analysis.	20
Cultural significance. Filled textbox with thoughtful analysis.	10
Mechanics (possible 20 pts.)
0-1 word/sent. errors=20, 2=15, 3=10, 4+=5	20

Response to Visual or Performing Art

(Be sure to attach the program, ticket stub, or other evidence that shows you actually went. I will not take it otherwise.)

Name of event:

Date you saw event: Place you saw the event:

Dionysian (emotional) response: (type in the text box, single-space, same font type and size as this page). Type enough to fill the box (be sure not to use “fluff” words, such as “in my honest, humble opinion…).

Apollonian (analytical) response: (type in the textbox, single-space, same font and size as this page). Type enough to fill the box.

Significance: How is this event culturally significant to you personally or to society as a whole? How does it further humanity? Type enough to fill the box.