pq: pq performance genre

"The play-as-text can be performed in a space, but the play-as-event belongs to the space, and makes the space perform as much as the actors perform". David Wiles.
Wiles, D. (2003). A short history of western performance space. New York: Cambridge University Press. (pg.2)

Brief

To make this beautiful eleventh century church at the crossroads perform.

To showcase the architecture that is St Annes and its surrounds via a performance genre that is consistent with the expectations of teenagers.

To layer historical information within a story through the incorporation of motif and reflection.

Why choose these genres?

Aerial Silk sited high in the structure encourages engagement with the impressive roof structure and Parkour enabling the scrambling up of tall walls, around and through windows,parapets etc.

The windows set high in the building are spectacular either as windows or doors, to be viewed through from the interior out or from the exterior in, with platforms, scaffolds, hand holds placed to enable performance.

Aerial Silk

http://www.myspace.com/dreyaweber

www.lauramorganyoga.com/aerialsilkscirque.html

Precedent Work

A fashion collection by Katti Zoob exhibited at Shanghai Moca is the impetus for considering Aerial Silk as a possible performance genre. Visited 27 August 2010.

Zoob draws inspiration from the likes of Hungarian Folk costume, eighteenth century poems, dresses and robes worn by the wife of the emperor of Austria, pouches from the time of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, the tulip as the most ancient flower motif of the Hungarian folk art, etc. St Anna’s and the crossroads with its long history will have a rich costume/detail/fabric/motif history parallel to this work by Zoob based on Hungarian history.

Fabric detailing, fabric choice, motif, drapery_all imbued with a strong richness of history.