ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates Bauman's description of the narrated event as the account or the original story and the narrative event as the recount or scene of the telling of the story. This narrative event consists of the surroundings and the "telling" of a life story. This "telling" includes dimensions that constitute narrative or life history as living gestures and vocal sounds of performance expression. The performance-centered text respects the dramatic and sensory dimension of this living, storytelling performer, as much as the playwright or novelist in communicating meanings and truths. As the performance-centered text aims to capture the multi-dimensional nature of the narrative event, it embraces the personal utterance of the performer through a poetic transcription, where words are placed symbolically in relation to how they are uttered. Poetic transcription is for a specific purpose that deliberately aims to do more than document and analyze experience.
