ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the processes of theatre, dance, and music. Performances don’t just happen. Whether they take place in a theatre, on a sports field, during a political campaign, at a doctor’s office or hospital, in a courtroom, at business, while shopping, or at home, all performances are prepared. The whole performance process sequence consists of: proto-performance, public performance, and aftermath. Rehearsing is the process of building up specific blocks of proto-p materials into larger and larger sequences of actions that are assembled into a whole, finished thing. The public performance phase of the time-space sequence process consists of warm-up, performance, and cool down. The performance process is not only about the large-scale arrangements of time, space, and action of the time–space sequence or the dynamics of the performance quadrilogue. Blending pre-existing texts with material researched during the workshop phase of the performance process is by now an accepted way of composing performances.
