Category Archives: Rehearsal Process

The Details in the Performance

As discussed in a previous, post our performance was beginning to touch upon some very complex ideas, and therefore for these to effectively be realised, the details in how we presented our performance were very important. An important decision we … Continue reading

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The Importance of Touch

Through doing research in Emmanuel Lévinas, how we viewed our performance began to change. Lévinas speaks of the face and what happens when we see this face, however it could be argued that our piece extends this idea, as we … Continue reading

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The Script

Developing the Script – Demi Morrison Leanne and I worked on the script for the piece together during a meeting. We wanted to words to be very succinct as we did not want anything to draw away from the intimacy … Continue reading

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Music for 18 Musicians

Researching into sound was quite a challenging area as we did not want to influence  the intimacy explored in the performance. We moved away from the idea of emotive sounds and pushed towards more minimalistic textures, structures, harmonies and dissonance. … Continue reading

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One to One Responses

Although our performance is a group performance, it is set up as a series of one to one performances in which our question ‘What is intimacy?’ is explored. While each of these performances are experimenting with the same questions and … Continue reading

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