This week we were taking inspiration from other site specific pieces of work which were both challenging and inspiring. The reason for this was because we were exposed to different kinds of performance we have never come across before, some shocking and thought-provoking about how we could work with audiences, and this got us thinking. Personally, my favourite was LIGNA’s Radio Ballet, performed in 2008 (Sofaer, J. 2010, Live Art Development Agency). What really got me was the fact that the audience were just members of the public, and everyone with the headphones was performing the actions in the middle of the city. This gave me ideas of what we could with our performance in regards to giving the audience headphones and giving them instructions of what they have to do, guiding them around the shopping centre.

Furthermore, when researching for some more inspiration, I came across the world famous site specific group Punchdrunk, I was reading their manifesto and this sentence really spoke to me and encapsulated some of the points we want to use in our performance; ‘Audiences are invited to rediscover the childlike excitement and anticipation of exploring the unknown and experience a real sense of adventure’. (Punchdrunk, 2014). I feel like we can really use this  excitement and discovery in our performance through the use of colours and sounds to make it accessible for families, especially children.