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 […]
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 […]
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 […]