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encore is a reimagining of the Milgram Experiment into a concert hall setting, performed for the purpose of deconstructing the societal expectations ingrained into audience etiquette. The audience takes on the role of the unsuspecting "Teacher" from the experiment, constantly pushed by social protocol to enact, in this case through applause, the cold repetition of destructive acts. For the performance to resolve itself, the audience must realize their role as an instigator in a harmful cycle and work together to end it. But even after they've understood their agency in this system, would an audience instead choose to keep watching? Would you?

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Recorded Performers for both performances: (from left to right at table) Cameron Church, Sebastian Suarez-Solis (cbassuarez.com), and Tyler Jordan (tylerjordancomposer.com). Audience by The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.