Aims of the project
- Narrative. The written material attempting to reflect the fractured way in which blind people have to gather from their environments, fragments of a picture, which are pieced together by constant editing and working backwards with delayed exposition. This narrative aesthetic denotes a fluidity which has to be employed by blind people in the visual world, picking up pieces of information, letting them go, changing positions held, and existing at times often in a state of relative heightened relationship with the ‘unknown’.
- The written material considering a set that acts in part as an interactive environment with its audience, so that the piece is not purely mediated through spectacle, but is more of a 360-degree experience.
- Movement. The written material used as a basis to explore styles of movement, which are derived from blind peoples own natural ways of negotiating the world. So for example, incorporating large gestures, exaggerated facial expressions, focusing on particular tension states and habitual movements, and using comic-tragic clown work.
- Sound Beam. To also consider technologies such as this, which is an invisible sonic beam that is activated by movement, and can guide the performer as well as create a purely audio presence of objects in space.
- Live Description. To build into the dialogue of the written piece from the start, reference to action, appearance and location, so this can act as fully integrated live description for a blind audience as well as performers.
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