Amy - Individual choreographic development:

To develop further in terms of my own choreographic voice, I would like to experiment with audience participation. I am interested in a more humourous style of choreography, as I am told. I create work that has a theme of humour however I never seem to realise this until my work is finished, which makes me want to further investigate opportunities of humour in choreography and dance. When it comes to style, I am more interested in what I can explain is a combination of gestural movements, release technique and the essence of William Forsythe (e.g. shapes, isolated movements, edges).

Within this practice I would like to include a live experiment in the final lecture demonstration to test how humour can be created through improvisation with the audience's participation without sight and my role being a choreographer and director. 

Ideas:

• Poses - I will pose a series of gestural positions and the blindfolded audience participate will use touch for 30 seconds to determine what poses I am portraying. The participant will then create that pose which they believe is the one I am showing.This then creates movement through the use of touch which means the lack of sight encourages individuality within movement that isn't usually shown when you have your sight and you look to others for inspiration when you are lost. 
• Building a set (scenography) - The blindfolded audience members will be directed one by one by me, to place a box in a certain place, however without their sight they cannot see where the box is to be placed they must remember through their direction and touch. The end result could be a completely different. 
• Directed poses to create a 'photograph' - This is the idea I am more likely to include within the lecture demonstration; Three audience members will be blindfolded (in our case 'goggled') and accompanied by myself, Terri and Jess for safety and will be directed by me where to stand until further notice. I will then project a random photograph on the screen behind the audience which shows a situation/group photo of people/animals/anything as a stimuli for the audience. When the photograph is projected, I will go to each participant and direct them into a certain pose that is shown on the projection, to re-create the photograph onto the stage. The certain photographs I chose will be at random with 3 particular beings (people/animals/anything) to match with the 3 participating audience members. These photographs may not be humourous, however, when experimenting I will ask the audience members to change their facial expressions, moods and possibly ask them to improvise by whispering actions to them that could create a humourous atmosphere, but this is all part of the test. Meanwhile the remaining audience members that are watching will see the outcome. Depending on the number of goggles we have, the experiment may use more than 3 members of the audience. I may however, use objects as well in terms of scenography. This experiment is to see how the audience react when participating on stage without sight to create an image for the remaining audience and will further my skills as a director and choreographer.