DLF Mall, Saket
near central cafe
7:30pm
Performers: Rudy & Shena
Observers: Pali
Audience No: slow growth to 100
MINIMAL MOVEMENT MIRROR EXERCISE
Audience:
amazement, wonder, curiosity, confusion. Mall security stopped it, asking repeatedly "Aap KAR kya rahe ho? Acting? Monoacting? dance? yeh sab... videsh mein hota hai, India meh nahin... this is not your bedroom that you can come and do any weird thing." One guy said to Mall security: "But they're not doing anything threatening. It's legal" Bihari family: "shooting ho raha hai" One politician-seeming person stood for a long time, watching, arrested; one mall staff person was also very connected.
Our comments:
should not even try to be colour coordinated in costume... should be totally casual - so that it's more natural. we really did try to keep it very minimal. No large hand gestures, not much movement at all. the crying that happened due to not blinking enough was a bit overboard! Pali felt that the mall security guy wanted to hit Rudy… Must try in other places, different kinds of locales. E.g. India gate. ......"Rudy - Yes I do agree the tears were a bit over the top but nonetheless for the observers/audience there would have been sooo much meaning that they read into it even though it wasn’t deliberate on our part. And this, as performers is perhaps another aspect of this that I find really interesting - The development of Narrative - what we do and what people perceive and however innocuous our actions might seem to us, to observers they might indeed be profound and speak volumes.. or not! But its interesting to see how we can be aware of that and start to manipulate and utilise thatpower of very very simple story telling.
near central cafe
7:30pm
Performers: Rudy & Shena
Observers: Pali
Audience No: slow growth to 100
MINIMAL MOVEMENT MIRROR EXERCISE
Audience:
amazement, wonder, curiosity, confusion. Mall security stopped it, asking repeatedly "Aap KAR kya rahe ho? Acting? Monoacting? dance? yeh sab... videsh mein hota hai, India meh nahin... this is not your bedroom that you can come and do any weird thing." One guy said to Mall security: "But they're not doing anything threatening. It's legal" Bihari family: "shooting ho raha hai" One politician-seeming person stood for a long time, watching, arrested; one mall staff person was also very connected.
Our comments:
should not even try to be colour coordinated in costume... should be totally casual - so that it's more natural. we really did try to keep it very minimal. No large hand gestures, not much movement at all. the crying that happened due to not blinking enough was a bit overboard! Pali felt that the mall security guy wanted to hit Rudy… Must try in other places, different kinds of locales. E.g. India gate. ......"Rudy - Yes I do agree the tears were a bit over the top but nonetheless for the observers/audience there would have been sooo much meaning that they read into it even though it wasn’t deliberate on our part. And this, as performers is perhaps another aspect of this that I find really interesting - The development of Narrative - what we do and what people perceive and however innocuous our actions might seem to us, to observers they might indeed be profound and speak volumes.. or not! But its interesting to see how we can be aware of that and start to manipulate and utilise thatpower of very very simple story telling.
