Engaging Your Audience
Three Pillars of Listening Activities in an Interactive Performance
- Know your audience and adapt your activities for the specific listeners you will be performing for.
- Vary the learning style that each of your activities is geared towards.
- Scaffold the level of difficulty of your listening activities over the arc of your Interactive Performance.
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Getting Started
Hear from Decoda and Ensemble Connect about how Interactive Performance helps create a deeper connection with your audience.
Part 1: Essential Elements
Catherine Gregory outlines the main components of Interactive Performance and the steps to create your own.
Part 3: Writing Your Interactive Performance
Hear from Alicia Lee on scripting your Interactive Performance and Evan Premo on asking good questions.
Part 4: Presenting Your Interactive Performance
You have now followed all the steps to create an Interactive Performance! Hear from Deanna Kennett on how to complete, rehearse, and present your Interactive Performance.
Part 5: A Closer Look
View the script and full performance video of Decoda’s Interactive Performance for elementary school students in Brooklyn and view a collection of Interactive Performance videos presented by Ensemble Connect.
Part 6: Opportunities for Connection
Congratulations! You have now completed your Interactive Performance. Hear from Catherine Gregory, Claire Bryant, Alicia Lee, and Evan Premo on the possibilities of whom to perform for and the lasting impact this work can have.