Walk the Walk

This session was an opportunity to show the group what I have been working on and get some feedback on it. I showed the video that I had created, featuring different clips of me walking, and explained that I wanted to have my blog available for participants to browse through. I asked the group for some advice on how best to invite my participants to experience the work. Teresa asked me to play the video again, she turned off the lights and asked me to sit on a chair near to the wall where the video was being projected. It was interesting for me to see how altering something so simple as where the audience are seated whilst viewing the video and the setting around them can change their experience. By having the audience seated alone in the dark, it made this experience a lot more intimate, without me actually even interacting with them live in the space. As I have mentioned previously, intimacy between the performer and the audience/participants is something that I have been intereste

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Me, Louisa, Jenny and Lotty decided to meet and talk about our progress on our projects, as well as doing some workshop activities to help us move forward. We began by sharing any developments we had for our projects. I explained that I had made the decision to no longer have my participants do a solo off-site audio walk, and instead I wanted my work to be based solely inside the 'instillational hub' that I mentioned during the exercise with Elenor, whilst implementing the audio ideas into this. Louisa, Jenny and Lotty shared some of their ideas for their projects, and then we decided to do an activity called 'Clean Questions', which helps to raise questions and find answers regarding your work. The idea of clean questions is that one person asks questions and another answers. The first question is always "What would you like to happen?" - in this case this is referring to during the performance. The maker will answer this question, and then the person ask

At this midpoint of the process, Teresa and Beth got all the students from MA Performance and Choreography together in order to share our progress so far. We were paired with someone from the opposite course to us (I was paired with Elenor from the MA Choreography course) and we were asked to give a detailed description of what we had in mind for our projects so far. Once we had both done this in our pairs, we would have to do a short presentation about our partners' work and answer questions from Teresa and Beth - so it was important to listen carefully to Elenor, and also to try and communicate my ideas to her as clearly as possible. Teresa and Beth also asked us to tell our partners a bit of background context about our practice, in order to help them understand where this new project placed within it. I told Elenor about my previous explorations with walking practice, my inspirations (Marina Abramovic, Adrian Howells and Rosana Cade), and I explained my thoughts regarding my

It just so happened that during my process for this work, me and my friends decided to climb up Mount Snowdon. I consider myself to be quite an active person, I go to the gym regularly, I have developed a practice based on walking for the past 2 years, I have completed my Duke of Edinburgh award, and I did a performance where I walked constantly for 12 hours - however, I still knew that Snowdon would be a challenge for me. After 15 minutes of constant uphill walking, I had to sit on a verge and have a break with my friend Caleb. The rest of the group were all still raring to go, they had barely got started, but me and Caleb were ready for the climb to be over. We were very genuinely considering going back to the car at the bottom and waiting for the rest of the group to get back, but we managed to find our motivation and carry on. We were using a guide that we found on the internet to reach the top of the mountain, which had interesting facts at points along the trail, for exa