To ensure our idea is grounded well within the criteria, it is important that each step we take with our piece remains to be Site Specific, therefore changing our title slightly seemed appropriate. We now ask the community to ‘Tell us a story about a place in Lincoln’, ensuring that all stories we collect are relevant to us.

I have found that referring to the space within our performance and our site and how the performance challenges the space between audience and performer relationship to be an interesting one due to the audience effectively becoming the performers once we ask for their stories. Like the rehearsal process of many performances their is a quality of the unknown and due to us being reliant of the community of Lincoln the effectiveness of our rehearsals comes down to their willingness and their stories.

Referring to space within performance, I then began to think about the city itself and whether its design aspect restricts our performance in any way: “Architecture controls and limits physical movement and sight-lines; it can stage and frame those who inhabit its spaces” (Pearson, 2010, p.g.21). I found this interesting as I am not sure that we consider this enough when in the space ourselves. As a society I think we are so used to having a conscience of personal space and becoming agitated when we feel this space being intruded. Bringing this back to the idea of architecture and how it perhaps restricts the space for performance, I thought into why new buildings are built and whether this shows representation of our economy and environment. Whether or not it does, quite often buildings tower over our picturesque city, however Site Specific Performance gives us the opportunity to explore these sites inside and out.

Works Cited
Pearson Mike, (2010), Site Specific Performance, Palgrave Macmillan.