types of audience
Today was demanding for me. We warmed up and then had a series of quite complex (and revealing) conversations. We are unquestionably in the thick of this work already - the taste is strong.
There is something going on for us about the nature of knowing, and the expectations of audiences in performance/dance. The question of responsibility has stayed with us, but there are many other threads: relationships, commitment, belief, faith, race (yup, the light stuff).
I feel quite engulfed by the thinking and the moving.
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In Small Acts of Repair, Goat Island distinguish between two types of audience: ecstatic and informed.
Colin talked of developing “enough space and bait and framing for them [the audience] to start doing the work.”
Playing with assumptions, beliefs …. by doing this it brings in uncertainty, disbelief …
Colin: “This is the deal, we are not standing in the wings commenting.”
[Later he said: “The only way to come out of this alive is to go in with all guns blazing.”]
What is that we know when we watch performance?
Relationship between the framing and the ‘performance’ - that its clear about the attachment it has to the reference. That we don’t become parasitical to the source material …
It’s easy for us to be part of the problem as opposed to being part of the solution. Danger in inserting ourselves in this so that we become dependent on it …
The encounter with knowing.
What we feel.
What we know.
Under these conditions, what is it possible to know? What is it possible to feel? What is it that you want to see?
