Tuesday 26 February 2013

Edges

Edges.
Kate Burnett.



 Edges - the line where seating ends and performance begins.



- Is an audience necessary?
- Relationship from audience to performer in a space?
- 'Clearing' - everything else clears to the side - for somebody to take procession of the space.
- Designated space - something that has a name - people thought about storytelling going on there.
- Found space - something that comes with its own history.

Designated space - might feel comfortable there
                                 - Nerve racking - not being there before.
                                    > Bad seats
                                    > Awkward
                                    > Not fitting in


Found space - Adventure about it
                                    > Rise taking - Night
                                    > Exciting - Day
                              - Might not be that good
                              - What type of people will be there?
                              

Participation - Panto - crossing the divide
                       - intellectual, emotional participation

Immersive Theatre - huge participation & relationship
                                 - space invaded! Your space, and the space you are in.

18th Century playhouse > Charles II
Elizabethan & Jacobean
^ insight people politically > huge gathering points

Spactical - 2012 London Olympics 
       - Attempt to tell you a story 

Street Performers - Little things in daily life
                                - Start to question what is really
                                - nobody wants you to be just an spectator. 

Q: How do people use the word 'theatrical'?

Mickel Freedmen (?) modern Art exhabition
                -Engaging with work

'Too Theatrical' - His criticism
Could mean - its too obvious
                      - Larger than life
                      - Its asking you to engage with it
                      - Its asking you to be involved
                      - Not real art - Art should just be there, that's it, no more involvement in needed.

Q: How much do you want the audience to feel comfortable?

Q: How much does the audience need to be involved/ viewed? 

Q: How to make the audience feel involved?

Q: How to make the audience feel like it's happening around them?



Look at...
-Robert Wilson
-John Cage


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