On Monday 11th of September, we had to go to the black box for our artist in residence session. We had to do multiple activities focusing on things like our awareness of space, reaction time, the repetition of our  movements, and our tempo like how fast or slow we were. After the activities we reflected on how the activity was and how our movements looked in terms of how interesting, how contrasting they were. To me, what stood out was the level of focus and how the movements contrasted from one another in terms of the difference in tempo. I found it really eye-catching when different people were carrying out their movement at different tempos at the same time.

After the activities, we had a discussion on the types of approaches we could take with our  story telling. There are online and offline interpretations. The online approach would be when everyone is alert and in the zone. It means there’s more doing and idea generation. It a way of developing our stories and to get all our ideas and creativity out. It’s very broad and we’re not supposed to focus on the little details.

On the other hand, we have the offline approach. The offline approach is described as out of the zone. It involves a lot of editing and reflection. Basically there’s a lot of consideration as to if something is going to work or not. In the offline process, we focus on the little things with a lot of analysing.

In conclusion, we were told that we should use more of the online approach rather than the offline one as it allows us to create more and focus on bigger things. We were informed that we should be using the online approach 80% of the time and the rest of the time we can spend on editing. The activities also helped us realised how many different things we could incorporate into our performance like different tempos, repetition or duration. I think today’s class opened us up a little and hopefully help us improve our story.