Which sentence is FALSE below?
The audience is the people in the seats watching a performance, but also dancers themselves are audience when they watch the other dancers onstage.
There is only one audience for a dance performance and it's the people who buy tickets to see the performance.
There is the audience who pays money to see the performance, but when the actual performance happens, the dancers are also audience as they sometimes can see the people in the audience move and may react to this movement in some way.
The audience can be watching a site dance standing around in different places where the dance is taking place and in that sense people just walking by can also be considered audience when they take a peek at the dance going on.
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This question may require more than one answer.
What TWO sentences below demonstrate why is it helpful to use the rhetorical situation as a way to understand the context of dance?
It’s good to know stuff.
If I can identify the elements of a rhetorical situation I will sound like I know what I’m talking about to my friends who have also come to view the dance performance.
Identifying the elements in a situation where communication is taking place helps to process the complexity of that situation and the many meanings that are emerging from that situation.
Applying the framework of a rhetorical situation to a dance performance is helpful because it gives the viewer a way to process all the different relationships that are being created during the movement. Afterwards using the rhetorical situation one can contrast and compare distinct contextual meanings of the dance.
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Which single sentences below does not make an important point about the content of this week’s work on dance and context?
By applying a framework onto the process of a dance performance the distinct contexts appear as sets of relationships between the elements in that framework and bring forward distinct meanings and possibilities in that particular dance.
The vital art of dance resides in the context of the human body and can help society to understand complex concepts through illustrating the relationships and processes that occur in the execution of a particular concept.
Dance as a social context where creativity is essential to making art work doesn’t need to do anything to foster new creative frameworks.
Context in dance is multiple and thus once identified and investigated the concept of context itself can greatly assist in developing a more inclusive understanding of what is possible in dance.