The Broad Spectrum Approach

I. Cordon Dance Ritual

Question
After watching this video; why do you think the participants dance in a circle?

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II. The Broad Spectrum Approach
Performance Studies Reader

(p.7 - 9) 

Question
Browse over these 3 pages and explain in your own words the change Richard Schechner is proposing for the study of the arts. 

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III. Dance Ritual Exercise
 

TAL 324 

Question

After watching the dance of this group of students from UM; Compare and contrast their dance with the Cordon dance ritual shown in the previous video.

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IV. The Medicine Man / The Shaman / The Curandero

Question

Based on this video, what was the role of the shaman in prehistoric societies?

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V. Your Own Shaman Dance 

Glance at the Past

(p. 25 - 38)

Go to page 28 and read the section titled The Shaman. 

Scroll down to the diagram on page 29. 

Create a movement phrase in which you integrate the four aspects of connection the shaman embodied: 

• Outer aspects of the dancer (Relation to environment)
• Outer aspects of the dancer (Relation to Society)
• Inner aspects of the dancer 
• Secondary aspect of the dancer

Exercise

Please, create 4 moves for each aspect, record it and post it on Discussion Board.