Performance Evaluation - imogen

On Wednesday we performed our Site Specific performance in the TTA lift. We Began by setting up the environment outside of the lift, we brought in candles and flowers to form a kind of 'shrine' to the dead and to create the sense of tragedy. We also found a huge black board that we covered in chalk writing using words like

'fall'
'10 dead'
'1903'
'death' 

This was all to add to the atmosphere and to hint at what our piece was about, in the centre of the board we had the 5 polaroids of us lined up with the quote

'Falling into a bottomless pit of happiness and no grief.' 

Which we found as someones response to the question 'how does it feel to die' and we felt was perfect to once again hint at what our piece was about.

We also decorated the rest of our space with poems and quotes about 'falling' and 'death' as well as having chalk and dust on the lockers and cabinets as we wanted the objects that were out of place to still fit in to our piece as they were something in our site we couldn't remove.

I'm falling

So slow, I can feel time passing by

I was convinced I could fly

I'm falling

The sensation is great

For the ending, I still have to wait

I'm falling

Can you see me coming to earth

I´m telling you, it is the falling worth

I´m falling

Reality coming closer

It´s finally over

nothing but darkness like and endless dream of darkness.

This was all part of our 'museum' idea, so there were images of old fashioned lifts and lift accidents around as well as polaroids of peoples faces as if they were the 'dead'. I think the site looked really good once we were done and i think we successfully made every object in the space look like it was meant to be there. Our actual performance went really well and i think we were successful in taking our audience fully out of their comfort zone. To improve i would have liked to repeat the piece more than once to a new audience so we could see how differently it effected people. Also if we were to choose our site again i think we would have chosen somewhere that wasn't so central as this meant we had students and teachers walking through and moving pieces of our set. I also think with more time we could have developed our physicality more and thought about how we could push ourselves further in our movements to create an even more surreal experience for the audience.