Yesterday Darren and I looked through all the work we have done during our research project, and it was amazing to look back at all the experimental work we have done between ourselves and with dancer Hannah Kidd over the last year. Some of our early trials have inevitably had to be put to one side in order to pursue particular ideas.
We talked about the feedback from the Open Studios, and the interesting insights people have had on the work:
The piece that Gill Hedley wrote after viewing our installations at The Place in December, Elastic Collision, is also a great resource for thinking about where we might take the work next.
We talked a lot about what has emerged and what we should aim to take forward. Whilst there was a very positive response by viewers to all the work the overwhelming feedback was that people are interested in getting more immersed, and possible getting into the elastic themselves. This confirmed our own interest in developing installations that surround the viewer with projected film, installed elastic and the potential for life dancers. We are also keen to take further our initial development of choreography based on movement in the elastic, which we had very little time to explore properly.
