Crystal Centre Site Specific Performance Context & Concepts

Context

We will utilise and understanding of the history and cultural background of site-specific performance/theatre. 

Including Antonin Artaud, Peter Brook, Alan Kaprow, Punchdrunk, Dreamthinkspeak, Shunt, Grid Iron, Tino Seghal and other practitioners.

We will use terminologies such as site specific, landscape, environmental, ritual, celebration, ceremony, cultural context, site specific, site responsive, site sympathetic and immersive theatre.

Concept

Examining the ‘whys’ and ‘what’s’ of creating site-specific work considering

The relationship between the audience and performer

Allowing the environment/site to speak for itself

How an environment might lend itself to performance

How site specific work differs from traditional theatre

Utilising the natural and architectural environment e.g. adding to it, altering, incorporating obscuring

The nature of the audience and the work

Singular and/or communal

Sitting/standing/moving

Participatory or non participatory