On Tuesday in class after our free write, Professor Brooks breifly mentioned daily life as a performance in her free write. After she mentioned the idea of our daily lives being a performance, I began to ponder the ways in which my life could be a performance.
To me, a performance is vulnerability in allowing yourself to be seen. This idea was reinforced for me today in Introduction to Modern class. Beau had us stand in two circles, an inward and outward circle, with the circles facing one another. We rotated around the circle and did nothing but stand in front of someone and allow ourselves to be seen. Beau spoke of this exercise as a standing performance. In nothing more than a standing posture, we are performing in that we are allowing our body to be witnessed by those surrounding us. This is essence is the daily performance; stand and be seen.
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