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. […]
Getting Together Ideas
During this process we have experienced, seen and read many different experimental performances, hoping that one of them would give us inspiration to develop into our own devised piece of experimental performance. The starting point: We began to discuss what/who we were particularly inspired by, we came up with the following ideas: This enabled us to […]
Initial Performance Ideas
When first thinking about what we wanted to base our performance around we knew we wanted to include some kind of technology but we wanted to understand exactly how technology should be used in a performance. We spent time researching different theatre companies that based their performances around technology and this allowed us to evolve […]