ONE MOMENT: DEVISING PROCESS
Here we share with you some of the questions we asked ourselves during the One Moment rehearsal process that helped us to take dramaturgical choices and create our composition, in the form of an interview with ourselves...
Content: What do you want to tell, what is our performance about? What view on the world/human society do we want to show?Out of which perspective is the story told?
Ongoing questions in our rehearsal process. First we wanted to tell a grotesque tale of 3 sisters Past, Present and Future and through their story how people relate to time in contemporary societies . After several showings we did not feel the creatures were strong enough to tell the story we wanted to share, so it became a story of one person from this period who stucked in a moment between past and future worries, regrets, hopes, fears.
Composition: How is the performance edited?
We researched time sensations, perceptions through playing with objects, ASMR effects, circular movements, singing and text. We explored these combining them with different viewpoints such as: duration, repetition, rhythm, speed. Based on these experiments we created different scenes. After one of the Showing, one of our mentors, Action Hero adviced us to have a look at these as compositional elements and playing with them, changing sequence, trying them out in a circular way. This is how we ended up with a circular , repetitive structure that is very much related to how time work.
Process: Did you have a clear question of research to begin this process with?
Yes, our question was how people relate to time in contemporary societies, how do they relate to past, present and future and how can we change their time sensations. Click on Aural, Visual, pHysical for more info.
Public: For who is this performance? What is the role of the public? How do you organise the public space? What is the effect of your performance on the public?
We knew from the beginning of the process that we will perform for 100 people, who will attend the ’We are now festival’ interested in technology and performance, in an end on theatre space.
We also knew that we wanted to create a headphone piece, using live transmission of binaural sound which will created an intimate experience for the audience, therefore this massively affected our decisions about the tone of the piece. We played a lot with whispers, gentle ASMR speeches and object’s sounds to speak directly to the people through the headphones. The effect we wanted is to make people think about their own relationship to time and change their time percpetions.
Click on the links below to find out more about how we developed the show.
