Format for Performance Critiques

Students in IDST 2310 are required to attend at least one event apart from the two required events we will attend as a class. Please consult your syllabus for a list of appropriate events; as a class, we will attend the Hmong exhibit on Tuesday, March 7, and the Women of Spirit performance on the Liberal Arts Symposium on April 5 in the afternoon. Please use the following format for the critique of your one additional event:

I. Please summarize the content and theme of the event you attended. If you attended a play, please summarize the plot and main characters. If a recital, please list the pieces and any relevant information you learned about them from the program notes. If a gallery exhibit, please list some sample works included there and some information from the display notes.

II. Please ANALYZE the materials presented in terms of how they relate to our class materials. Consider the following points in your analysis and respond to as many of them as are relevant: What uses of color, line, shape, texture or rhythm were evident in the work(s)? Do any aspects of the performance or works in the exhibit illustrate functionalism? Realism? Idealism? Art and the Ordered Cosmos? Art as Self-Expression? If so, in what ways does the material illustrate these aesthetic schools of thought? Please list specific features of the performance which support your points.

III. Finally, please list any other significant features of the performance that may not have been covered above. Were there any special themes or topics that were emphasized in the work(s)?

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