This workshop is a little time to consider what type of spectatorship certain works or ways of working might need in order to be perceived. How can we suggest these positions of spectatorship from within the work and also maybe how we can expand expectations of spectacle?
We will work (for the fun of it) on making quick forms that demand different qualities of reception so we can try things out and also try out ways of augmenting our reception of these "things".
Probably something about criticality will come up which will include evaluating traditional/habitual ways of receiving an audience (re: theatre space and time). The workshop will start with this premise but might end somewhere else. I want to think with a group about what the basic assumptions held about (performed) dance is in our culture and what it might need from us to keep on being vital.
