So, some dance students got in touch – from Northern School of contemporary dance across the road from union 105. They have to do a collaborative project and might be interested in working with me. The deadline is very soon for their project and I am also organising a mapping event so will see what kind of work they want to make.
We meet. They are nice, Why Not? is their theme. They are thinking about socially acceptible behaviour and what people will or won’t do in front of others. This is interesting and we discuss how this could relate to my work and to the local community. With so many people from different cultures living in the area it occured that maybe there are things that people do that aren’t acceptible to other cultures and whether the boundaries of appropriateness of behaviour are blurred or crossed. We discussed documenting or observing people in the street and whether they do things that we or others might find inappropriate and then recreating them in performance. Or asking people what they wouldn’t do in public space or what they would love to do in public space but don’t feel able to. We could then create these acts as a representation of the thoughts of others from the local community.
This could be interesting
