The Encyclopedia of Interactive Performance

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Establishing activities

In every scene, something is going on.

Exercises

Explore the activity

Player A establishes an activity using oblique offers. Player B joins in when the activity becomes obvious. Both players go deeper into the details of the activity without advancing the plot.

activities context space work

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Modeling

showing how something is done so spects can do it themselves

Spects play in foreign worlds yet they’re expected to behave as natives. Modeling allows spects to see how things are done so they can do those things themselves.