Judith Lynne Hana, The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion To Metaphor in Dance and Society

With the poetry slam competition – a live, competitive spoken word poetry reading – as context for this project, the study explores the concepts of authenticity and audience connection as they relate to message production and meaning-making processes in the field of professional communication. This project uses a symbolic interactionist perspective and Goffman’s (1959) theory of dramaturgy to investigate the poet-audience relationship and discover how a display of authentic performance works to achieve the goal of audience connection. The researcher interviewed six slam poets from the Greater Toronto and Southwestern Ontario area about their experiences in the poetry slam world. Results from the interviews reveal that authenticity is co-constructed between poet and audience, involving a coalescence of private preparation strategies and onstage performance strategies that help craft a sense of credibility and honesty from the poet that, in turn, contribute to achieving successful audience connection by the slam poet as performer.

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The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society

Anthropologica ◽

10.2307/25605135 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Adrienne L. Kaeppler ◽

Judith Lynne Hanna

Keyword(s):

Audience Connection

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Review of The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/022427 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 29 (11) ◽

pp. 916-916

Author(s):

Philip E. Tetlock

Keyword(s):

Audience Connection

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Designing a creator – audience connection script

Integrated Storytelling by Design ◽

10.4324/9781003014454-23 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104-106

Author(s):

Klaus Sommer Paulsen

Keyword(s):

Audience Connection

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Nicholas Daniel

Great Oboists on Music and Musicianship ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190915094.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 16-31

Author(s):

Michele Fiala

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Instrumental Music ◽

The World ◽

Audience Connection ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Nicholas Daniel became known as an oboe soloist after winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year award at the age of eighteen. He has performed and conducted around the world and was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Music. In this interview, he talks about the performer-audience connection, fidelity to composers, problem solving in music, creating an interpretation, and being a soloist. He also discusses the relationship of vocal and instrumental music, commissioning, and highlights of his career.

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