Objective
To reflect on the different strategies of performance in Vigil
To develop personal research skills through the affect-analysis-reflection-connection process
To engage in a close analysis of different strategies at work within the performance
To write persuasively, evocatively, and with clarity
Instructions
Analyze the short clip from The Vigil, using the language of performance to articulate your affective response to the clip and connect it to the dominant ideologies at play within the performance as a whole.
You can take up themes such as the Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee, murdered and missing Indigenous women, social attitudes towards poverty and drug addiction, Colonialism, or you can, instead (or as well), draw on ways this film connects to your positionality if they are more pressing.
Focus on the artistic strategies of performance in your analysis: the use of the body, objects, audience, and space. Whenever you see “artistic strategies” in the rubric below this week it means performance strategies. Use the language and terminology of performance taught in this week’s modules.
This response should be 300-350 words in length. no more than 350 words please
Writing Process
Your paper should integrate the results of your personal research process above. It should begin with an articulation of how you responded emotionally to this moment (your experience of the affect).
It should then proceed to a close analysis of the strategies at work in this section of the play, performance, or film, that uses the languages of performance of design taught in lectures and modules for that week. The analysis should connect to your description of the affect.
(NB: you do not have to feel what you think they are trying to make you feel, just note the disconnect and reflect on why.) Then connect that analysis to the play, performance or film, as a whole, and your understanding of its social objectives, its cultural context, and its place within your cultural context.
