Performance Art Blog

Today we performed our our proposals in class, having everyone do various different roles. I participated in two, the first was Sara's proposal, and the second was Jill's proposal. Sara's involved taking pieces of paper and writing your name on it, then randomly selecting one and imitating the person who's name is on it. This was somewhat difficult due to the set time was a minute. It seemed that the other group members and I ran out of things to say and imitate, and it might have worked better and with less awkward silent time if the limit had been thirty seconds. I had to imitated Jill, and I did so using a piece of paper rolled up to look like a cigarette, and a little dialogue. However everyone had a hard time filling the one minute time span. The second one I performed in was with Thiana, and it involved stepping on each other's shoes and walking briefly. It was challenging since I'm several inches shorter, but it worked fine eventually. It involved balance and a clear space to be performed in. It also took less time, since there was no specific set limit, but instead just as much time as it needed for completion.
My proposal was entirely conversation based and it involved a two people speaking alternating sentences to each other, but with the first letter of the first word going in alphabetical order. In my opinion it was pretty successful since Chris and Diana were able to hold their conversation without too much pausing or hesitation. They completed it within a few minutes, but still without a time limit. It started with longer more coherent sentences, then progressed toward short phrases, and then to just one word at a time. The conversation made less sense towards the end, but it was also more humorous. Overall I think it worked out well and even though it wasn't a very physically based performance, it had a good overall outcome.