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By introducing the transdisciplinary political dance production Parcival XX-XI and exemplifying two participatory scenarios out of the play, we discuss the audience’s appreciation of interactive digital media usage within the traditional frame of theatre. In this context, we developed a short-guided interview to be conducted with members of the audience after each performance, planned as an on-going evaluation. Based on 15 interviews, we present four reasons of why the audience tends to (not) duck the head when asked to participate in Parcival XX-XI: Fear, fun, frustration and schadenfreude.
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Friederichs-Büttner, G. (2011). Don’t Duck Your Head! Notes on Audience Experience in a Participatory Performance. In: Dickmann, L., Volkmann, G., Malaka, R., Boll, S., Krüger, A., Olivier, P. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6815. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22571-0_10
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