Theatre, Dance and Performance Training

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Coding and hacking: a performance score

Kris Darby

To cite this article: Kris Darby (2019) Coding and hacking: a performance score, Theatre, Dance
and Performance Training, 10:2, 205-205, DOI: 10.1080/19443927.2019.1625622

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Coding and hacking: a performance score

Kris Darby

[Tested with MA Performance students to develop their individual performance

scores collectively] <1.0 Coding> Distil performance score (or a section
that you feel requires development) into separate lines of code. Write
each line on a separate cue card and place them in a pile. <2.0 Bug
testing> Exchange your pile of cards with another user and run their
programme for them. Lines of code may be edited and new ones written.
<3.0 Further Development> [All users work on one empty Google Docs
on Google Drive (or Dropbox Paper) which has been shared with them.]
Take a page and type out your edited code. You should consult artifi-
cial intelligences such as: www.poem-generator.org.uk www.pandorabots.
com/mitsuku/ for guidance. <4.0 Hacking> On the Google Docs file,
hack into another user’s code: 1. Denial of Service (DoS) – Flood the file
with text. 2. Watering hole – Find the weakest aspect of the text and
strengthen it. 3. Fake WAP – Clone aspects of the other user’s code, add-
ing repetition. 4. Virus – Copy some of your own code into their work.
<5.0 Final Run> Run your new programme in front of the other users.
Decide what bugs to keep and what to delete.
Kris Darby is a Lecturer in Drama & Performance Studies at Liverpool
Hope University.

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