Rhetorical Analysis of Body Expression in Street Performance

Abstract

Street performance of a pantomime performance group "to R mansion" was analyzed to elucidate the mechanism of evoking amusingness in audience. According to the analysis, to R mansion encourages audience interpret the meaning of the scenes created with their body movements and objects. When audience discover the meaning of the scenes, audience is invited to join the performance with their imagination, which may elicit amusingness.