All the five senses, Sight, Smell, Taste, Hear and Touch are all connected to each other. Without realising it we always experience two or more senses at once. This diagram shows the networks within our bodies, showing how the sense are linked with each other. Sight and smell have a strong relationship, before smelling things […]
Headspace
The concept of headspace is a common and effective component of experimental performance, and one which we are very keen to include in our piece. “Headspace is a feature of performance work that takes place largely in the head of an audience member” (Petralia 2010, p. 97), and immerses the audience member into an individual […]
Out of the ordinary, breaking conventions and pushing limits: An idea coming together
What is conventional theatre? Conventional theatre involves an audience approaching a theatre with needs of being aesthetically pleased. We go to the theatre and sit in the dark while watching a picture frame of action, many judge theatre based on what has stuck out visually in their memory or what had the biggest impact on them. This […]
BARK!: Example blindfolded performance using sound, touch and smell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpN57QokPFc BARK! a dance for a blindfolded audience: Watching a performance which explores taking away sight and using smell, touch and sound to create an immersive performance enabled us to analyse what we think would work well in a performance like this, and what we think would not be possible and would be least effective. […]
Making the audience our focus
One thing I have learnt whilst studying different types of experimental performance is that a lot of performances appear to be based around the audience. We looked at the work of Marina Abramovic and liked her ideas but we felt there was something missing. Her work is very much based around her whereas we wanted […]